Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress)

aquaman520 · 09-13-2008, 06:21 PM

Hello folks,

I'm using Wordpress with All-In-One SEO and I'm having an issue where the title tag from the home page overrides the title tag written for the blog page. Not only the title, but all the meta data... So google is considering these two pages to be duplicate content.

I'm pretty sure that this issue is causing some drop in the ranks for me, so if somebody out there has a solution for this problem, it'd be sooooo appreciated.

Thanks guys in advance.

Vince

edynas · 09-14-2008, 07:17 AM

Do you mean you have 2 pages? a blog page and a homepage?
If so the easiest way imho is to create a home.php file in your theme directory which will cause your homepage to display that and adjust it to the way you like.

aquaman520 · 09-14-2008, 11:23 AM

thanks edynas, i appreciate your help. i'll try to see if i can accomplish this with your method mentioned.

edynas · 09-14-2008, 03:46 PM

Sure...if you need more help just yell

aquaman520 · 09-15-2008, 02:03 AM

edynas,

thanks for your offer to help. i'm not too strong in the coding department so... i create a home.php file and just add in the lines

<title>XXX</title>

within that file?

edynas · 09-15-2008, 10:39 AM

yup that's it. The simplest way to do it is to copy the index.php file and rename that to home.php
In the file replace the tags that are there in the title with your tile.

If the theme is futher sliced into also header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php etc and you do not see <title> </title> in the index.php file let me know which theme you use and i'll make a home.php file for youl

aquaman520 · 09-15-2008, 11:49 PM

Hi edynas,

once again, thank you for your kindness and assistance! I tried looking in index.php but not finding <title> at all.

I'm using a custom theme, so how can we go about?

aquaman520 · 09-15-2008, 11:52 PM

I found that my header.php file had <title> tags in it. So I duplicated the header.php file and renamed it blog.php (because it's the blog page that I need changed) and edited & wrote a new <title> tag.

Still doesn't work...

09-13-2008, 06:21 PM	#1
aquaman520 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) Hello folks, I'm using Wordpress with All-In-One SEO and I'm having an issue where the title tag from the home page overrides the title tag written for the blog page. Not only the title, but all the meta data... So google is considering these two pages to be duplicate content. I'm pretty sure that this issue is causing some drop in the ranks for me, so if somebody out there has a solution for this problem, it'd be sooooo appreciated. Thanks guys in advance. Vince

09-14-2008, 07:17 AM	#2
edynas Edwin Boiten War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The Hague,Netherlands. Posts: 588 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 206 Thanked 128 Times in 80 Posts Contact Info	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) Do you mean you have 2 pages? a blog page and a homepage? If so the easiest way imho is to create a home.php file in your theme directory which will cause your homepage to display that and adjust it to the way you like.
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09-14-2008, 11:23 AM	#3
aquaman520 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) thanks edynas, i appreciate your help. i'll try to see if i can accomplish this with your method mentioned.

09-14-2008, 03:46 PM	#4
edynas Edwin Boiten War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The Hague,Netherlands. Posts: 588 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 206 Thanked 128 Times in 80 Posts Contact Info	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) Sure...if you need more help just yell
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09-15-2008, 02:03 AM	#5
aquaman520 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) edynas, thanks for your offer to help. i'm not too strong in the coding department so... i create a home.php file and just add in the lines <title>XXX</title> within that file?

09-15-2008, 10:39 AM	#6
edynas Edwin Boiten War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The Hague,Netherlands. Posts: 588 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 206 Thanked 128 Times in 80 Posts Contact Info	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) yup that's it. The simplest way to do it is to copy the index.php file and rename that to home.php In the file replace the tags that are there in the title with your tile. If the theme is futher sliced into also header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php etc and you do not see <title> </title> in the index.php file let me know which theme you use and i'll make a home.php file for youl
	All my products - an overview is at : http://edwinboiten.com

09-15-2008, 11:49 PM	#7
aquaman520 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) Hi edynas, once again, thank you for your kindness and assistance! I tried looking in index.php but not finding <title> at all. I'm using a custom theme, so how can we go about?

09-15-2008, 11:52 PM	#8
aquaman520 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Blog title tag is overridden by the home page's title tag (w/ WordPress) I found that my header.php file had <title> tags in it. So I duplicated the header.php file and renamed it blog.php (because it's the blog page that I need changed) and edited & wrote a new <title> tag. Still doesn't work...