Hello,

I noticed for Views with pagers the title stays the same all the time which are then reported as pages with duplicate titles in Google Webmasters. Would be nice to have an option to add the pager number to the page title.

Here are some discussions, but perhaps a checkbox would be more convenient:
http://drupal.org/node/1188142
http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/blog/avoiding-duplicate-title-tags-on-pag...

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couturier’s picture

This would be fantastic! Google and Bing both flag this as an SEO flaw, duplicate page titles a paginated View.

The Page Title module already provides the capability of fixing this, but it would be great to have it in Views without the weight of implementing an extra module. From the Page Title module documentation:

Pagination Suffix: One of the things you may noticed about Drupal in terms of SEO is that whenever you go through a paged list of content, the page title never changes. Google Webmaster Tools will flag this up as a problem as you essentially have several different pages all being identified with the same page title. A new feature, introduced in Page Title 2.1, is the ability to append the page number as a suffix pattern. This means any URL which contains something like page=2 in the query string will also have an optional token pattern suffixed onto the end of it.

couturier’s picture

Version: 7.x-3.x-dev » 8.x-3.x-dev

I'm moving this to 8.x-dev because it would be so great to have this with Drupal 8. It appears the Metatag module is incorporating Page Title module functionality so that Page Title can eventually be phased out. Unfortunately, Metatag still does not have a way to fix duplicate page titles in Views. If we could offer this in Views, then other modules would not need to fix it from the outside.

dawehner’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry, but adding the pager id to the pager title, this is really a custom request.
Sure you can implement anything into anything so you end up with a great feature monster

You could do this for example using a custom page display plugin or even a hacky module which scans for pagers in general and should work on comment pages as well. I don't see a point to add this to views in general.

Jorge Navarro’s picture

You can find [current-page:page-number] token inside a view if you use Metatag Views inside Metatag module.

Jorge Navarro’s picture

Issue summary: View changes

adding link

prakharcse’s picture

Issue summary: View changes

hi

I have a view which results in about 20 pages with pager. URLs are like xyz?page=1. Now, I want to implement different meta description for each page so that xyz?page=1 and xyz?page=2 have different meta descriptions.
I have Metatag module installed in my installation.

maustyle’s picture

#4 works like a charm.

mgifford’s picture

Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active
Issue tags: +SEO

@dawehner this is a complaint that google comes up with in their Webmaster Tools - Search Console. Under Search Appearance & HTML Improvements they complain about Duplicate title tags

Your title provides users and search engines with useful information about your site. Text contained in title tags can appear in search results pages, and relevant, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on. We recommend reviewing the list and updating the title tags wherever possible.

By default it would be great if this were addressed out of the box.

Feel free to close it, but when Google suggests it, I don't think it is a "really a custom request".

mgifford’s picture

Lendude’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

As this stands for D8 it's a duplicate of #1281154: add Page number to multiple pages title so closing it as that. If somebody wants to open this back up and try to get it into 7.x feel free (but given @dawehners earlier comment that probably won't happen).