Avoid duplicate content in DC.title
| Project: | Nodewords |
| Version: | 5.x-1.12 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | won't fix |
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1. As mentioned in DC.Title.inc at line 11 at the moment only nodes can get an automatic DC.title tag:
// http://drupal.org/node/103399 : we are unable to drupal_get_title(),
// so unfortunately, only node-pages can get a DC.title.
But nonetheless for all pages that are not nodes in line 33 the DC.title is filled with the site name and the site slogan. That means that a lot of pages (all which are not nodes) get an identical DC.title tag. I wonder whether this could be rated as duplicate content by search engines.
So I propose to delete this lines:
else {
$value = variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal');
if (variable_get('site_slogan', '')) {
$value .= ' | '. variable_get('site_slogan', '');
}
}2. In all other cases the DC.title is filled with the content of the html tag. It seems that this could also be seen as some sort of duplicate content. In http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000/2000pdf/Sokvitne.PDF I found:
The DC.title field will be checked to see if it simply duplicates the HTML element tag . There may be a potential loss of retrieval capacity if DC.title merely replicates a retrieval point that already exists.
So I wonder whether the DC.title should be switched on, if there are no manually edited DC.titles.
From http://drupal.org/node/276838 I am afraid, that turning on DC.title will cause a ranking problem.
It would be nice to hear about other experiences.
#1
As the Drupal 5 version is not supported anymore, I am changing the status of this report.
#2
I think those questions are the same for D6? Or is this solved in D6 already?
#3
The reported code is not present in the development snapshot for Drupal 6, so I would say that the issue is not even present in the Drupal 6 branch.
I am resetting the report metadata.