Comments on: Joomla Tutorial – Creating a Custom Page Title (Title Tag) to Improve SEO

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By: Laurence Cope

Laurence Cope — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:49:22 +0000

@Manish Hi Manish – sorry for late reply been on holiday… can you email me as it could be one of many issues, then I can post the solution we made for you here. Email me on info@amitywebsolutions.co.uk and let me know what problems you have with the above not working. Thanks.

By: Manish

Manish — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:01:26 +0000

Hi,

I tried your way. But it is not working for me. Can yo please give me some suggestion on this?

By: Laurence Cope

Laurence Cope — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:32:27 +0000

I use sh404SEF for SEF URLs and this also manages page titles I think, so I disable the title management in this so I can use the Joomla one, but of course keep the SEF functionality turned on.

By: Gordon Barnes

Gordon Barnes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:32:35 +0000

hello i may have been very hasty in my judgement. I am using 1.5 the latest Joomla .My problem was “seo simple” or “SEF” plugin as soon as i “unabled” both of them (after going back and reading the article further) it clicked in my brain your solution does work my humble apologies to you regards Gordy

By: Laurence Cope

Laurence Cope — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:53:57 +0000

Hi Gordon. It is possible you are referring to Joomla 1.0.x but in Joomla 1.5 the above process controls each page browser title if you want the title to be different to the name of the page. The process is used to control the Browser titles on all our Joomla sites. If you have Joomla 1.5 please give it a go.

By: Gordon Barnes

Gordon Barnes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:45:45 +0000

This does not work. The Meta “title view source” is controlled by global configuration “SITE” then site Name

By: Laurence Cope

Laurence Cope — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:38:49 +0000

@Nick Joomla 1.5 has much improved article linking, in that no duplicate pages with different URLs should occur as they did with Joomla 1.0.x , and the Title should be maintained. If you see my News page wich is a category listing (http://www.amitywebsolutions.co.uk/news ), I have added a link to the Contact Us page using the insert hyperlink button in the editor (I use JCE Editor http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/ ). Clicking this link shows the custom title I have added for the Contact page as per method above.

Alternatively try hyperlinking to the Menu item and not the Article. JCE provides this facility.

If it still does not work perhaps this is a JCE feature and not Tiny MCE that comes with Joomla? Or perhaps you have a SEF component installed that can control Titles (like sh404SEF). I turn this off in my sh404SEF component.

Hope that helps.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:52:18 +0000

That works fine if you have an article linked from a menu but if the article is linked from a category listing then how do you get the the meta title to show an article title?

By: AndrewBoldman

AndrewBoldman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:31:43 +0000

Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.