# Discourse hurts the SEO by automatically adding the «Topics» suffix to HTML Title of category pages for Google

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**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [11월 12, 2015, 4:55오전 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")\
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**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:** [11월 12, 2015, 5:18오전 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")

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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)

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