Show Tag/Category in Title Tag

marktaylor · Mar 6th 2021

Hi,

I have a generic 'Archive' page with the below title, however this is being marked down for SEO as many of the 'pages' have the same title. Is it possible to dynamically insert the category or tag returned.

This is how it is : <title>Archive | <?php echo $companyName ;?></title>

Ideally I'd like this if possible: <title>Archive of (Tag/Category) | <?php echo $companyName ;?></title>

I output the returned queries using the below, if it in anyway helps.

Thanks in advance.

PHP

<?php
$posts_per_page = 9;
$template = 'post_in_list.html';
$sort_order = 'DESC';
$sort_by = 'postDateTime';
$posts_displayed = false;
if(perch_get('cat')) {
echo '<h1 class="mb-5 underline-center-mb-0 text-center">Category: ' . perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'),true) . '</h1>';
perch_blog_custom([
'category'=>perch_get('cat'),
'template'=>$template,
'count'=>$posts_per_page,
'sort'=>$sort_by,
'sort-order'=>$sort_order
]);
$posts_displayed = true;
}
if(perch_get('tag')) {
echo '<h1 class="mb-5 underline-center-mb-0 text-center">Tag: ' . perch_blog_tag(perch_get('tag'),true) . '</h1>';
perch_blog_custom([
'tag'=>perch_get('tag'),
'template'=>$template,
'count'=>$posts_per_page,
'sort'=>$sort_by,
'sort-order'=>$sort_order
]);
$posts_displayed = true;
}
if($posts_displayed == false) {
echo '<h1>Archive</h1>';
perch_blog_custom([
'template'=>$template,
'count'=>$posts_per_page,
'sort'=>$sort_by,
'sort-order'=>$sort_order
]);
}
?>

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marktaylor · Mar 19th 2021

Hi,

I don't suppose anyone has a solution to this please?

Thanks

Clive Walker · Mar 19th 2021

One way is to use a similar statement to what you already have for the category and tag headings in the page. So, I would put the tag or category into a variable and echo that out using an if statement for the page title.

marktaylor · Mar 19th 2021

Hi Clive,

Thanks for your reply. I don't suppose you can help with this? as I'm not conversant with php

Clive Walker · Mar 20th 2021

I don't know how you are generating $companyName but something like this...

Have included meta descriptions but you may have another method for this.

PHP

<?php if (perch_get('tag')) {
// it's a tag
$tag = perch_get('tag');
echo '<title>Archive of ' .$tag. ' | ' .$companyName. '</title>
<meta name="description" content="Meta description about ' .$tag. '" />';
}
elseif (perch_get('cat')) {
// it's a category
$cat = perch_get('cat');
echo '<title>Archive of ' .$cat. ' | ' .$companyName. '</title>
<meta name="description" content="Meta description about ' .$cat. '" />';
}
else {
// it's the default
echo '<title>Default page title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Default page description" />';
} ?>

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