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Remove handbook from document title.

Open StevenDufresne opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Two of the most well visited pages on developer.wp.org are:

  • https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/
  • https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/

Most of the traffic comes from search results.

We currently append the handbook name to the title in the format {post title} - {handbook} name. In my opinon, the handbook title is irrelevant to users and makes the result less appealing.

(the excerpt also need help)

Here's how they appear in Google search results: Screenshot 2024-02-20 at 11 46 46 AM Screenshot 2024-02-20 at 11 46 41 AM

cc @jonoalderson

StevenDufresne avatar Feb 20 '24 02:02 StevenDufresne

If we remove that stem, can we be confident that there aren't / won't be a ton of other pages with the same title? Nervous about accidental large-scale duplication of titles. 🤔

jonoalderson avatar Feb 21 '24 13:02 jonoalderson

Good point. I'll pull some data as a next step.

StevenDufresne avatar Feb 21 '24 23:02 StevenDufresne