The default page title for Drupal 7 pages is: "node title | site title". This can lead to multiple pages with the same page title when a site has multiple nodes with the same title. This can cause problems with usability, accessibility and SEO.

Recommendation

Make the page title a reverse breadcrumb, with at least two nodes (where available) before the site title. Fore example, the breadcrumb "Home » Download » Drupal project » Drupal Issues for Drupal" would turn into the page title "Issues for Drupal | Drupal | Drupal.org".

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mgifford’s picture

mgifford
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I'm thinking there's room to improve the title for sure.

From SEO there's also pagination to consider.

For example all of these page:
http://drupal.org/project/modules
http://drupal.org/project/modules?page=4
http://drupal.org/project/modules?page=5

Share the title:
Modules | drupal.org

It would be better for them to be listed as:
Modules | drupal.org
Modules (Page 5) | drupal.org
Modules (Page 6) | drupal.org

There are also many Drupal sites that don't seem to pre-populate Delicious links properly when I'm adding them there. They often require re-writing.

Probably not a huge patch to bring in either breadcrumb or pagination info.

Was looking at this page http://openconcept.ca/search/node/data?page=4

And realized I had some code for this which might be useful for at least that piece:

  $vars['head_title'] .= $_REQUEST['page'] ? t(' | Page @page', array('@page' => $_REQUEST['page'])) : '';
mgifford’s picture

mgifford
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Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

bumping to D8

Everett Zufelt’s picture

Everett Zufelt commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Setting to won't fix. the page_title module does a good job at this, incorporating tokens, and is supported in d6 / d7