When checking my website with Bing site scanning, it reports that for two pages, the title is too long.
I checked these pages and indeed, the title is concatenated from the Title in the general settings, with the browser Title in Meta data.
For all other pages, only the browser Title is used.
I have no idea how this is possible.
I already removed the browser Title using “cmd-a” and then “delete”, but after rewriting the browser Title, the problem arises again.
Are you using any third-party SEO stack that might be conflicting with RapidWeaver’s built-in SEO tools? I saw in another post you said you were using the Concierge stack. I don’t have that stack to test with, is there anything you’ve set in it differently on those two pages that you haven’t set on your other pages? Or do you have any other stack on those two pages that you don’t have on all your other pages?
Thanks for checking. The strange thing is that I also have the dutch version (NL) where this problem doesn’t occur. All three versions are based on the same dutch version that I copied and changed the text.
So it’s only the French and English versions that you are seeing the problem on? If you want to send those project files and your addons folder over to us per our guide here, we can take a look to see if we can spot anything out of the ordinary.
So after some testing I think the browser title is just being a bit sticky. I was able to edit the browser title a bit in RW, press return on keyboard to set the changes, and then preview the page in my browser, and the new browser title stuck just fine. I had to edit the Browser Title field a few times with different text in some cases to get the change to stick.
I tried it, but in my case, it did not work.
What i noticed is that in the browser, the title is not the title shown in the RW metadata, but the title of the page as seen at the left of the RW window, concatenated with the title from the General settings.
I had to play with it quite a bit to get the titles to stick, including adding longer strings of text in the Browser Title field, saving, then editing the text to what I wanted it to be, saving again, then testing. This was noticeable on the two pages you linked to, less noticeable on some of the others.
If you’d like to try and troubleshoot what’s going on with it on your Mac over a Zoom call let me know and I can get something scheduled.
I was trying like you said, but that did not work. Then I noticed that when I used a lot of random characters in the title, it did work well.
So I said to myself, what the heck, lets just put a space as first character of the title and we will see what happens.
Well, if I do that, all titles are good. One space character to start the title with and the problem is solved !
