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  • James 251 posts 1169 karma points
    Aug 28, 2014 @ 13:38
    James
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    Page Titles/ Names & SEO

    Hello All,

     

    I have been using Umbraco for a little while now.

     

    Im titling each of my websites pages doing this:

     

    <title> Company/ Site Name | @Umbraco.Field("pageName")</title>

     

    I can change the names of the nodes which I have created in order to make longer titles for each page.

     

    If i have a node called Home, and change it to Professional Services. I can still get to that page using /home. Why is this?

     

    What is the best way using umbraco to create managable titles for SEO that can be set in the master layout page?

  • Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib
    Aug 28, 2014 @ 13:56
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Hi James

    What version of Umbraco are you using?

    So you change the page name to "professional services" so it should be accssible using www.site.com/professional-services but you can also access that same page using the old name like www.site.com/home ?

    Are there by any chance some redirects somewhere?

    /Jan

  • James 251 posts 1169 karma points
    Aug 28, 2014 @ 14:00
    James
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    Hi Jan

     

    I am using the version that automatically installs in visual studio 2013 which is  7.1.6.

     

    Yes once i have created all my doc types and templates then the nodes say Home > Contact | Services

     

    If i change Home to "random name" i can get to it using /random-name and /home

    Very strange.

    Im just looking for more lengthy titles on each of the pages withotu sacrificing the simple short node names.

     

    Is there a standard way people use umbraco to do this? 

     

  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Aug 28, 2014 @ 14:45
    Dennis Aaen
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    Hi James,

    Okay so if I understand you correctly you want the title of your page to be some else, so you can keep your url, short.

    The way I normally do this is by add a tab on my document type called Navigation, on that tab I put, the umbracoNaviHide property, and a property called navigation title, by doing this the user can give the page a new name.

    I think that you could do that way, and if the navigation title property is empty for the page, then you could make a fallback to the nodename,

    This how I normally do it, hope this helps and I have understood your question correct,

    /Dennis

  • Steve Morgan 1350 posts 4460 karma points c-trib
    Aug 28, 2014 @ 15:57
    Steve Morgan
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    To add to what Dennis has said - if you use a Master document type put this Navigation (I call it Meta) tab on that and then all your document types will have this property/ies - in the example below it has the  alias pageTitle 

    You can have it fall back to the node name:

    @Umbraco.Field("pageTitle", altFieldAlias: "pageName")

     

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