Re: Topics View
Posted by
Hugo <Nabble> on
Sep 13, 2011; 4:33am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Topics-View-tp6761347p6786186.html
Harvey44 wrote
I still notice an issue with TOPICS VIEW. The system doesn't treat them as separate pages. Essentially if I change the meta description on topics view it changes it on MAIN VIEW too.
This is not completely true. The meta tags (description/keywords) are only displayed on the app main page. The topics view doesn't have those tags (look at the source and you will confirm this). So changing those tags for your app will affect your main page only.
Harvey44 wrote
My title tags don't do that, but I suspect that that is because you guys did a custom hack for me that this overriding it.
Yes, you have custom NAML code to print custom titles. We should eventually remove that code to give you the ability to edit the titles from the interface, but this can wait if you prefer.
Harvey44 wrote
Maybe all TOPICS VIEW pages should be no follow, if that won't make the main view nofollow. Right now when you google my forum you see two basically identical views. While I realise this may not technically be duplicate content, I rather come up with a solution that doesn't look like duplicate content:
Let me give you some thoughts so that you can make a decision. What you really want here is actually a meta tag "robots" with "noindex,follow", which is different from nofollow (a "nofollow" meta tag would be a disaster, because it would tell google to skip all links on that page and your topics wouldn't be crawled – this is certainly not what you want). The "noindex, follow" would tell google to not index that page, but to follow the links and continue crawling all links available there (yes, that's what you want). The problem with that approach is that you won't be listed in the search results if someone looks for keywords that different topics alone don't have, but together on the topics view page they have. For example, topic 1 has a subject "AAA BBB CCC" and topic 2 has "XXX YYY ZZZ". If someone looks for "AAA XXX", only the topics page could have that combination. Please let me know what you think.
Harvey44 wrote
Also it's very odd that the title tags are reversed. The MAIN VIEW above is indexed with the title tags for the TOPICS VIEW. The title tag that ends with " ..." is the TOPICS view title tag.
I was not able to reproduce this (maybe because I am not in the US right now?). How do you know the one with "..." is the topics one? Google doesn't reveal the contents of "...".