we’re currently migrating a huge forum to Discourse and I realized that there is only one single “Title” that I can set. This title will both
be the actual, SEO relevant <title> of the start page and
be added to any category and thread <title>
For SEO purposes, the <title> of every page should be as descriptive as possible and should therefore contain the most relevant keywords.
So for better rankings, the title of the homepage should contain SEO-relevant keywords. Like “Blabla Forum - the best advise around cats and cooking”.
However, this will be automatically added to thread titles as well, so the result is for example an ugly looking, much too long “How do I best cook a young black cat, given that I am not yet experienced? - Blabla Forum - the best advise around cats and cooking”.
You see the point?
It would therefore be awesome, if we would be able to have separate settings for the homepage title and a string that will be added to the titles of the rest of the forum.
On meta our home page title is: “Discourse Meta” and our site description is “Discussion about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software”
I think it is reasonable to amend it so our home page title is “title” + “some other string”
At the moment when searching for meta Discourse you get:
@codinghorror what are your thoughts on adding “short site description” site setting? Description is too long here, its like we need a “short description”
I think this has lots of impact on the way your site shows up in Google and noticed it a lot over the years.
New site setting short site description has been added for this purpose. It is going to be appended to the site title on home page like this: Site Title - Short Site Description
Looks like it is mostly working, but we are still fighting with JavaScript a bit, cause when I visit https://meta.discourse.org I see it, but then it flashes away.
