# CMS item pages: page title, meta description and canonical are the same for every item

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**Category:** Elements\
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**Created:** [October 8, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cms-item-pages-page-title-meta-description-and-canonical-are-the-same-for-every-item/57811 "2026-10-08T14:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marcoen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marcoen/32/7727_2.png) [@Marcoen](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Marcoen)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cms-item-pages-page-title-meta-description-and-canonical-are-the-same-for-every-item/57811/1 "2026-10-08T14:44:01Z")

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Hi all,

I’m using the Elements CMS for a blog on my site (Elements version: 3.1.2). The item page works fine visually, but the SEO data is the same for every item:

- **Page title:** with the Browser title field empty, every item gets the page Title (“Post”). The [frontmatter docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/cms/cms/markdown/frontmatter.md) say the item title is used as the default page title, but that doesn’t happen for me. Putting `{{item.title}}` in the Browser title field outputs it literally.
- **Meta description:** every item gets the same page-level description. I’d expect the `excerpt` to be usable here.
- **Canonical:** every item points to `/post/` instead of `/post/?item=...`. So Google sees all articles as duplicates of the empty template page.

Example: [{{item.title}} | Beter Presenteren](https://www.beterpresenteren.nl/over-marcoen/weblog/post/?item=presentatie-voorbereiden-vrijheid)

Is there a setting I’m missing, or is per-item SEO not supported yet? If not, is it on the roadmap? Without it, CMS blog posts can’t really be indexed separately.

Thanks!  
Marcoen