# Remove category names from topic titles

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036 "2017-10-13T20:58:11Z")
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### Author: ![Jenn\_Briden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Jenn\_Briden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jenn_Briden)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/1 "2017-10-13T20:58:11Z")

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Our SEO vendor has asked that we remove the category names from the SEO title for posts. Is this possible to do within Discourse?

For example:  
`<post title> - <category> - <forums name>`

would go to  
`<post title> - <forums name>`

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### Author: ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/2 "2017-10-13T21:32:04Z")

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> [@Jenn\_Briden](#):
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> Our SEO vendor

Sorry I don’t have an answer for your question. Who is your SEO vendor?

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### Author: ![Jenn\_Briden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Jenn\_Briden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jenn_Briden)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/3 "2017-10-13T21:39:21Z")

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MKG Marketing. I’m on the engineering team, and our marketing team works with MKG. We use Google Webmaster Tools and are updating our internal site search for our website to use Swiftype. Our goal is to enable the meta template used by discourse to be edited so that the content is identically routed appropriately to all search engines.

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### Author: ![Jenn\_Briden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Jenn\_Briden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jenn_Briden)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/4 "2017-10-13T22:33:54Z")

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I think I found my own answer - there’s an admin setting in Other for “topic page title includes category” - I have deselected this, and I am imagining that it isn’t retroactive.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/5 "2019-11-17T02:32:40Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/6 "2023-08-12T21:21:42Z")

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-category-names-from-topic-titles/72036/7 "2023-08-12T22:52:56Z")

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