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    "Board name" in threads

    Hi,
    I upgraded my board to vB 4 a few days ago. When forum was working on vB 3, the forum name was added to thread title. Example:
    Forum name: XXX
    Thread title: YYY
    On vB 3 I could see in my browser: XXX - YYY

    Unfortunately vBulletin's developers removed it and now I can see only 'YYY' in meta desc.
    How to add displaying of "forum name" to all threads' meta decsriptions?

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    The general advice around here is to never have your Forum name in the title and there are tutorials on how to remove it. I wouldn't know how you'd add it into vB4

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    Correct, you DON'T want this for better long tail searching.

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    Hmm... My Forum is about football so I think it is ok when it has phrases like "football, matches, scores" in the title.
    Google Webmaster show that users visit my Forum using in Google phrases like "real madrid matches", "ac milan matches", "premier league scores" etc.

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    Threads should be about threads, not the general forum theme.
    More reading on the subject: [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy - vBulletin SEO Forums
    (note, you don't need to follow this, as it is designed for vb3)

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