Single posts don't have unique titles and descriptions

**treasureman** · 06-20-2006 01:13 AM

Google has now indexed thousands of my forums single posts, with URL's such as: http://myforum.com/95755-post18.html

However the title and the description of the single posts are just the title of the forum that it is in, and the meta description is just that of the forum it is in. Which means there are thousands of single posts indexed with the exact same title and description.

Did I miss a setting in VBSEO? I want the single posts title and descriptions to be rewritten and be unique like the post threads. Maybe the title could be a combination of the thread title and the first 5 words of the post (to make them unique) and the description could be the first 10 or 15 words of the post.

Any one know what I need to change?

**Keith Cohen** · 06-20-2006 01:16 AM

You should edit your showthread_showpost template to add more on-page SEO if you are allowing your showpost pages to be indexed.

Though, the META data should already be re-written with vBSEO. (It may be something that was added with 3.0.0.)

Here's an example of mine: Chain Adjustment Guide - FireBlades.org

I added an H1 title to the page, and also changed the <title> tag, plus a few other small tweaks. (A lot more could be done also.)

**treasureman** · 06-20-2006 04:50 PM

Strange I have "Rewrite Showpost URLs?" set to yes in VBSEO.

And my showthread_showpost template contains:

<head>

<title>$thread[title] $foruminfo[title]</title>
<meta name="description" content="$thread[title] $foruminfo[title] $foruminfo[description] " />
<meta name="keywords" content="$thread[title] $vboptions[keywords]" />
$headinclude </head>

However when viewing a single post the title shows as the Forum title only, there is no thread title, and the description title comes up as only the description of the forum. There is no thread title or forum info as per the above template.

I am still using VBSEO 2.4 because that's the latest stable version that has been released. If I need to be using a newer version, and it is stable, please furnish me with a link to download.

**Keith Cohen** · 06-20-2006 05:04 PM

Can you post a URL to one of your posts?

**treasureman** · 06-20-2006 05:18 PM

Sure, here is a link to a single post:

http://appraisersforum.com/1188923-post4.html

Here is a link to the thread that contains the above post:
http://appraisersforum.com/general-a...-source-s.html

You will note that the entire thread is rewritten nicely, just like I want it, both title and description, however the single post is not.

**Keith Cohen** · 06-20-2006 05:24 PM

Have you tried the feature to compare your showthread_showpost template to the default template to see what's different?

The top of mine has this. (Note: No meta lines, etc.)

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$threadinfo[title] - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
</head>
<body style="margin:0px" onload="self.focus()" class="page">

Looks like yours was changed from the standard....

**treasureman** · 06-20-2006 05:58 PM

Keith,

Thanks, I have put your head info in my template and now the title is correct, it is the title of the thread, plus the name of the forum.

But there is no Meta description. Where should that come from if there is no Meta description tags in the showthread_showpost templates?

**Keith Cohen** · 06-20-2006 06:05 PM

Re-writing the META data for showpost may be a fix in vBSEO 3.0.0.

**treasureman** · 06-20-2006 06:07 PM

Okay, thanks, I guess I will wait for 3.0 to come out.

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