# Discourse hurts the SEO by automatically adding the «Topics» suffix to HTML Title of category pages for Google **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [2015年十一月12日 04:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481 "2015-11-12T04:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dmitry\_fedyuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dmitry_fedyuk/32/293153_2.png) [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 04:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/1 "2015-11-12T04:55:36Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/8/386868519250df72f1f196fa582fd37562355447.png) A category page for Google: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/a/5a479d3fbc8b193dc8289058dfcf0249166b5206.png) The same page for humans: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/8/28553dad2b9c80d4d7dd708238b73d6a4077dd81.png) ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 05:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/2 "2015-11-12T05:13:34Z")
Hmm can you repro this @techapj? ---
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 05:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/3 "2015-11-12T05:18:24Z")
First, I’m not convinced that the presence of “topic” will “hurt” SEO Second, and more importantly. it looks like the mage2 site has some odd routing / structure thing going on. eg. (\*note both “t” and “topic” in the URL) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0ac36dd6ad5819734d28e50832f2a42c6a8e2769.png) ---
**Author:** ![dmitry\_fedyuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dmitry_fedyuk/32/293153_2.png) [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 05:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/4 "2015-11-12T05:32:27Z")
Surely it is reproduced. Here is the Meta: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/8/787e77078fb8888f5f148a3353b9077cef28d86a.png) Moreover, it would be very nice to have the ability for admistrator to set the HTML Title tag for categories manually (and without generic site name suffix too) because it has a lot of value for the conversion from SERP to the site. ---
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/5 "2015-11-12T05:44:31Z")
Thanks, now I"ve found it `https://meta.discourse.org/c/extensibility/plugin` The title in the browser tab says “Latest plugin topics - Discourse Meta” but the HTML is ```plaintext plugin Topics - Discourse Meta ``` ---
**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 06:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/6 "2015-11-12T06:03:53Z")
Yes, I can repro this. For `https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug` - the title for humans is: `Latest bug topics - Discourse Meta` - the the title for Googlebot is: `bug Topics - Discourse Meta` Should we change the title for Googlebot to: `bug - Discourse Meta` ? ---
**Author:** ![dmitry\_fedyuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dmitry_fedyuk/32/293153_2.png) [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 06:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/7 "2015-11-12T06:26:51Z")
With the ability to set the category HTML Title tag manually a good title would be `Report Bugs - Discourse` or `Bug Reporting - Discourse`, so a SERP user will understand better the page meaning. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 06:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/8 "2015-11-12T06:31:41Z")
No, we won’t be doing that @dmitry_fedyuk – but I agree the word “topics” is useless to Google and should be removed @techapj. ---
**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 07:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/9 "2015-11-12T07:08:11Z")
Done via: [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/06c11a32354716a2230a342487ea8210b6c99838](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/06c11a32354716a2230a342487ea8210b6c99838) ---
**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Post date:** [2015年十一月12日 07:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hurts-the-seo-by-automatically-adding-the-topics-suffix-to-html-title-of-category-pages-for-google/35481/10 "2015-11-12T07:08:16Z")