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SEO Title Line Needs Some Help
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FidoSysop
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Mar 25, 2012 - 4:03 pm

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.

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FidoSysop
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Mar 25, 2012 - 4:08 pm

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?

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Mr Papa
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Mar 25, 2012 - 4:13 pm

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?

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FidoSysop
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Mar 25, 2012 - 4:30 pm

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/.....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

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Mr Papa
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Mar 25, 2012 - 4:33 pm

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...

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Mar 25, 2012 - 7:45 pm

Friends,

Thanks for sharing this as I could resolve the problem following the tips here.

Wow, finally it is done.

Thanks a lot,

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FidoSysop
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Mar 25, 2012 - 8:15 pm

I got something still hosed up.

If i leave AIO SEO enabled on the forum page with the input fields blank it puts the spacer correctly between the blog name and the forum page title.

If i add a title, description, and key words to the blog page SEO it breaks the SEO for the forums themselves.

Disabling AIO SEO plugin takes me back to where the blog name and page title are run together without a spacer.

So for now i have AIO SEO enabled on the forum page with the title, description, and keywords blank. and the forums appear to be entered into the title line..

Whew. I'm beat. Tomorrow is another day. Night all. smile

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Mr Papa
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Mar 25, 2012 - 8:58 pm

good news Jay!

FidoSysop, leave the title, description and keywords empty on the wp page aioseo fields... then go to forum - components - seo and enter the description and keywords you want for the forum there...

I would recommend filling in the custom description and keywords... then under Meta Tags Setup, select the 'Use custom description on main forum page only, use forum description on forum pages and use first post excerpt (120 chars) on topic pages' option...

Also, if you are using the SP tags plugin, I would suggest selecting the option to override the custom meta keywords with the topic tags on topic pages...

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FidoSysop
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Mar 26, 2012 - 9:46 am

Thanks, Mr Papa.. smile

Everything is looking good on my end.

Was just looking at my Google Webmaster Tools acct and the sitemap is showing all submitted urls are indexed.That's a good thing.. wink

I think it's also a good idea for anyone not using a WordPress sitemap generator to try Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress by Arne Brachhold. I like the idea that it includes SP Forums URLs too, in conjunction with the SP Google Sitemap Plugin.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 26, 2012 - 10:49 am

Good news. Thanks for the update.

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