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SEO Title Line Needs Some Help

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

I have been fiddling with the SEO feature.

A pipe is being inserted between the forums pages etc. But not between the blog title and the board content.

From a view source.

<title>Hello | Introduce Yourself | Discussion BoardNARU eBay Messengers Blog and Forums</title>

I believe it should look like this? 
<title>Hello | Introduce Yourself | Discussion Board | NARU eBay Messengers Blog and Forums</title>
Tried to upload a screen capture of the page source, but even at 640x480 it is rejected for excessive size.

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

so what are your sp seo options? 

should not have issue getting image that size under 50k which I suspect is the problem vs dimensions…

do you have any other seo plugins active?

the site name and wp page name are normally output from your wp theme…

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Use All in one SEO WP Plugin.

Geez.. 50k that’s about the size of a thumbnail. Possibly up the size a bit.

I resized the crap out of the image. Got it down to 114k, any smaller than that it couldn’t be seen.

http://www.docsplace.org/misc/title-line-source-view.jpg

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Here are my SEO Settings.

http://www.docsplace.org/misc/seo-settings.jpg

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

AIOSEO allows custom settings on each wp page… have you verified that you dont have anything set on the wp page the forum appears on?  until just this month, we had used AIOSEO too…

did you ever verify what your wp theme was outputting?

what if you check the first three options in the browser title section?

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

I have the All in one SEO disabled on the forums page.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Mr Papa said
AIOSEO allows custom settings on each wp page… have you verified that you dont have anything set on the wp page the forum appears on?  until just this month, we had used AIOSEO too…

did you ever verify what your wp theme was outputting?

what if you check the first three options in the browser title section?

No mater what i set on the SP SEO options page there is still no separator between the blog name and the forums.

The theme output should be visible in that screen shot, no?

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Re-verified that the AIO SEO options on that page is checked to disable SEO. Otherwise it’s a blank page.

My blog posts look good with a | between the post and blog names. And i have no other pages defined on the site.

Disabling the SEO Plugin does nothing. It’s the same as before.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

so you said to override title, and include blog name and page name?  on our seo options…

not sure how it could be missing the separator if the theme is ignored and aioseo is off…

is only wrong on topic pages?  or forum page too?  and what about say profile page?

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Wrong all the way around. It’s like the SEO plugin has no effect between the blog and the forums where the line is running together. It is putting in the separator between the forums posts etc. Just something is running the blog name and the forums page name together. I even disabled my Add This social plugin thinking it may have caused it.

Wanna have a look? Pm me and i will give you my log in credentials.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Ahhhhh.. I fingered it out.. 🙂

Had to enable the AIO SEO on that page. That put the separator in it’s proper placer.

Will having the SEO title and description fields blank on the forum page hurt my SEO of the forums?

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

seo title field blank?  thought that was what you were just fixing up?  why do you want the description blank? are you not using the forum stuff for the same?

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Sorry I’m not the brightest bulb in the string sometimes. Just an old disabled car dealer and Internet hobbyist.

You talking about the SEO Entries on the forum blog page itself? I had that disabled by placing a check mark in the AIO page field. Didn’t think i needed it since the page was blank anyway. I had to Uncheck the SEO to Enable it for the forum page to correctly add the separator. 

Here is a screen grab.

http://www.docsplace.org/misc/seo-page-option.jpg

BTW: Thanks for the great support – even on a Sunday. That can’t be beat!

You guys have a real nice product. I am really impressed with it. wink

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

what else would I do on a sunday?  wink  just watching a little golf and keeping eye on forum…

What I was trying to say on our seo page, forum – components – seo, you can set a description and keywords…  then they get used on the forum page and it wont matter that you left them blank on the wp page itself…