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Google Webmaster Tools shows *many* duplicate titles in our forums -- and sure enough, it appears all of our pages have the same title.
Certainly, SP creates custom titles... do I need to turn that 'on' ?
Thanks much.
Jim
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Oh dear - SEO has always confounded me but as I am the one here at he moment I will do my best. First - have you set up the SEO options for SP (forum admin > components)?
And/or I think I have to ask if you are using any other SEO plugin as you do need to make sure that it is not forcing the WP page name to be used as this will always be the same which is why it needs the SP extensions.
Now Steve or Brandon can step in later and tell me what I missed!
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Thank you.
This is our current config: http://screencast.com/t/JzCUjQtjU0
Looks to me like I haven't set up the SEO. I'll start experimenting...
--Does anyone have SEO config recommendations?
We are using the Yoast SEO...
Thanks.
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UPDATE
So, after changing some SimplePress SEO settings, I don't see any changes to the titles or meta descriptions.
I suppose Yoast might be overriding SimplePress SEO, but not sure if I can 'exclude' Yoast from our forums folder.
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SP will work quite happily with Yoast SEO but I really do have to ask you to wait a bit so Steve (Mr Papa) can weigh in who wrote the integration and has a much better knowledge of SEO then me.
Although having said that there are going to be quite a few forum threads dealing with this so it might be worth a search to save some time.
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Appears to be my issue ...
https://simple-press.com/suppo.....o-problem/
...however, the above post is inconclusive.
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not sure those two tickets are the same... yoast is overriding our canonical url and just using the wp page...
see: https://simple-press.com/suppo.....2/#p124538
for a yoast workaround...
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Wow, a 5 page thread... BTW, I am using Yoast WP SEO on a Studio Press-Genesis theme.
So, I made progress. This is where I'm at:
1) Permalinks -- are Good.
Yoast "Redirect ugly URL's to clean permalinks" is OFF -- Tested ON and the Forums would not navigate properly.
2) Description -- displays properly on all pages.
SP Forum | Components | Meta Tags Data Custom Meta Description | >> created a meta description
Removed the Forum meta description from Yoast
Set SP to: "Use custom meta description on main forum page only, use forum description on forum pages and use first post excerpt (120 chars) on topic pages"
3) Title -- Does not change. All pages always stay the same.
In the thread above -- https://simple-press.com/suppo.....age-5/ -- 3 solutions were discussed ....
A)
Add a function to spFunctions.php (like below). However, in the thread Steve said this would be added to an upcoming release (April 2013). Has this been added? Or do I need to add?
1 function my_canonical_exclude( $canonical ) {
2 global $post;
3 if ( $post->ID == 6992 ) $canonical = false;
4 return $canonical;
5 }
6 add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', 'my_canonical_exclude' );
B)
Change this... add_filter('wp_title', 'sp_setup_browser_title', 10, 3);
to this ... add_filter('wp_title', 'sp_setup_browser_title', 99, 3);
C)
http://dottech.org/101602/prob.....cal-guide/
So, are any -- or a combination -- of the above relevant to the Title issue?
Thanks much!
Jim
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I linked to a specific post with the title change...
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Steve
I tried each function in my /sp-resources/forum-themes/default/templates/spFunctions.php
Still, no title changes.
(In the second function, I did update the "ID" value.)
These are my SEO settings > http://screencast.com/t/ljrfWKakX
Do I need to change a setting in Yoast?
Thoughts?
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