vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

[Ace Shattock]

From http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html:

The title of a document is specified by the TITLE element. The TITLE element should occur in the HEAD of the document.

There may only be one title in any document. It should identify the content of the document in a fairly wide context.

The title is not part of the text of the document, but is a property of the whole document. It may not contain anchors, paragraph marks, or highlighting. The title may be used to identify the node in a history list, to label the window displaying the node, etc. It is not normally displayed in the text of a document itself. Contrast titles with headings . The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in length. That is, many applications will display document titles in window titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title (as it may be automatically generated from other data), information providers are warned that it may be truncated if long.

and <title>: the most important element of a quality Web page - Quality web tips :

A good title

So take care to give your page a good title:

not too short
"Section One" won't help much when it shows up in a search results list. Section one of what?. Better: <title>Section One of the Modern Music Guide</title> or even better <title>Time Frame (the Modern Music Guide, Section 1)</title>
not too long
Because only 60 to 80 characters are displayed in many window titles, menus, etc.; you can give a more detailed/pleasant title in the top level heading of your document, e.g. <h1>Section One: When has the Modern Time Commenced, Musicwise?</h1> (with a link to the whole Modern Music Guide for context).

vBSEO's Relevant Replacements feature can be used to achieve the second point.

[Adult SEO]

These automated general titles are never as good as user generated titles wich change from time to time.

[thompson]

thanks for the tip.

[Clive]

Because I was directed to this thread by a vBSEO stuff to get the solution to one of my open issues, here's a mod that solves Adult SEO's problem, too:
Forum Title - vBulletin.org Forum

[popowich]

Is it possible to create slugs but also retain the old URL's?

If I add slugs the old links break.

Should I create apache permanent redirects for the old URL's to the new ones?

-Raymond

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You can add a "Custom Redirect" in vBSEO CP, like:

'old-title/(.*)$' => 'new-titles/$1'

[Eros]

check Forum Display Enhancements - Forum Title - vBulletin Modifications

[thompson]

cool, but need registration to download.

[Zi5]

I find the soloution but we need Oleg help
Attachment 6594


How i can made this mode work in forumhome
I've add the $foruminfo[forum_title] for all this templetes

'forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost',
'forumhome_forumbit_level1_post',
'forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost',
'forumhome_forumbit_level2_post',
'forumhome_subforumbit_nopost',
'forumhome_subforumbit_post',



I think there are a Hook edit or a file edit to get it works

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Hello ,

Please try asking asistance from mod_author.

[A.Chakery]

I found a mod on vb.org , This will allow you to change the title that shows up per forum.
here it is (its made for vb 3.7.x , but its working great on 3.8 )

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=165538

[Michael Biddle]

Glad you enjoy it

[A.Chakery]

Glad you enjoy it

thats really a great work Michael , I hope you develop this great mod for vb4.

thanks again

[schlottke]

I didn't see the link for Michael's 4.0 version, so here it is.
Forum Title - vBulletin.org Forum