Question Thread title - Forum Name

xenigma · Mar 17, 2017

Hi,

Just a question on indexed content:

Prior to DBSEO Google displayed Thread name - Forum Name where "Forum Name" was the text entered into: Site Name / URL / Contact Details==>Forum Name. Currently, Google is displaying Thread Name - mysite

Any idea where Google is picking that up from?

Fillip H. · Mar 17, 2017

Could it be the <title> tag in the source?

xenigma · Mar 17, 2017

That's the odd thing. Previously the forum name was appended automatically to the thread name inside the <title> tags but I don't see the "mysite" bit added by Google when I view page source on recently indexed content.

I just see: <title>Man surprised at performance of wellies in puddle</title>

Fillip H. · Mar 17, 2017

Right, but having your site name in the title can be bad for SEO. It can be seen as keyword spamming, the meta keywords and meta descriptions handle actually inserting relevant keywords into the search engine results.

xenigma · Mar 17, 2017

Okay, makes sense. So, going at this from the reverse angle, how can I get rid of "mysite" from the thread title?

Is that being inserted by VB or DBSEO?

Fillip H. · Mar 18, 2017

It might be in the SHOWTHREAD template.

DragonByte Technologies · Apr 1, 2017

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xenigma · Oct 5, 2017

Sorry for not getting back sooner. I continued to look into this and neither the SHOWTHREAD nor the FORUMDISPLAY template contains anything that would call my site name and place it into the <title> tag.

I was able to get my forum name to display in the browser tab by adding the phrase in red:

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['enablefacebookconnect']"> xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"</vb:if> dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
	{vb:raw headinclude}
	<vb:if condition="$threadinfo['keywords']"><meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw threadinfo.keywords}" /></vb:if>
	<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw thread.meta_description}" />

         <title>{vb:raw thread.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw thread.title}<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > '1'"> - {vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}</vb:if>[COLOR="#FF0000"] | {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}[/COLOR]</title>

Obviously I did the same for FORUMDISPLAY. The result, when hovering over a browser tab is now:

thread title | my forum name

However, I noticed that a recently indexed link showed as follows: thread title | my forum name - mysite

The part in red is what I'm trying to remove but as I say, I have no idea what is placing it there.

Fillip H. · Oct 5, 2017

DBSEO doesn’t modify the title tag in that way so I can’t say I know why it’s happening, sorry

DragonByte Technologies · Oct 19, 2017

Hello xenigma,

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