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On paginated topics in particular, the title is duplicated each page, as is the meta description. While the latter is separately fixable, the title really does need to be updated.
At the very least, we should consider 'Title - Page 2' for pages > 1.
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 01:41 PM
Wedge r1412 adds support for the pagination to be indicated in the page title (but nowhere else)
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I've also now fixed the meta description in topics to be the first post of the page, with tags stripped and stuff like that. It's not pretty, it's not elegant but it seems to do the job just fine. I haven't yet thought about truncating it past a certain point yet, though.
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There's an AeMe helper function for truncating complex strings... But I believe I moved it to westr since then... Bit old in my head.
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I remembered there was one, but I couldn't judge how short to make the string.
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Bumping to put this nearer the top of my todo list. Any idea how short the meta description should be?
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OK, so I've set this to 160 characters as that seems to be a sane guideline figure from what I can tell.
There is no meta description for the board index or home page yet. Not sure how best to approach that yet either.
Posted: February 21st, 2013, 12:30 AM
Committed in r1936.
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160 bytes is usually a bit short for a regular conversation (you don't always 'think' of compressing details into the beginning of a post, unlike Twitter...), so OTOH I'd rather not waste too many bytes on a feature that's SEO-only. (Heck, it it were me, I'd just dismiss the meta description tag entirely... :^^;:)
So, a good compromise I suppose..?
BTW, is it worth putting the … stuff in the string? It looks a bit odd, when looking at the HTML...
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(Heck, it it were me, I'd just dismiss the meta description tag entirely... :^^;:)
160 bytes is usually a bit short for a regular conversation
Posted: February 21st, 2013, 06:56 PM
Regarding the hellip, using a straight ... would be better there if possible. Maybe an option for westr::cut?