Different Titles for Category Pages

[rookers]

Hello,

I think having different titles for a each page of a category that has more than 1 page is beneficial, especially since Google alerts the webmaster via webmaster tools of duplicate pages with the same meta description and title.

For example, let's say category Automotive has 10 pages, the first page of the Automotive category has the "Automotive" title, and the rest of the 9 pages in that category have the same title.. which causes the duplicate titles warning.

One idea would be this: adding the page number to the title. For exmaple: first page: Automotive : Page 1, second page: Autotomove: Page 2, and so on.

Again, I think this would be very beneficial for our sites, seo wise.. However, I dont know how to do this.

Does anybody have a clue ?

[CEC]

Write your own titles.

[rookers]

Write your own titles.

I did, However you are missing the point. I know you can write your own title for each category, however, you cant write unique titles for each PAGE WITHIN A CATEGORY.

[CEC]

Sorry, got you. I agree, some variances on these additional pages would be a good idea.

[rookers]

Ok, great

So does anyone know how to do this with category pages ?

[Bruceper]

Category titles are all going to be pretty much the same except for the category name. On most of my sites I use the URL and then category name and then the sites "tagline". That gives something of a random page title, while making sure the tagline has the specific keyword(s) I want/need.

[rookers]

Here is what I am talking about: http://www.nicecoder.com/demo/indexu/image-galleries/ on the first page of that category it says " page 1 " at the end, when clicking on page 2, it says page 2, etc.

I see this is possible on Indexu Deluxe, however I would like to know how this is possible on indexu 5.4

Any ideas ?

[rookers]

Nobody wants to help out ?!

[Bruceper]

I already answered the question, it's the same thing for Deluxe as it is for 5.4x and probably earlier versions too.

[rookers]

I already answered the question, it's the same thing for Deluxe as it is for 5.4x and probably earlier versions too.

YEs you have replied however I didnt understood what to be done.

What i want is to add on each category page ( title! ) , the page number, like it is here : http://www.nicecoder.com/demo/indexu/image-galleries/ - if you browse to page 2, the title will also have a bit of text saying " page 2" . I dont know how to do that, i know i can change titles and so on with the help of the admin panel however.. I have a category with 20 pages... and they all have the same title..

[Bruceper]

Try the following in browse.html

title="Domain browse by categories: $page_title - $page"

If that doesn't work then check out browse.php and look to see what variables are available.

[rookers]

Try the following in browse.html

title="Domain browse by categories: $page_title - $page"

If that doesn't work then check out browse.php and look to see what variables are available.

Tried that however it doesnt work. Where exactly in browse.php should I look for variables that are available?

[Bruceper]

global $header, $footer, $category, $category_name, $category_description,
$link, $pagination, $category_path, $content, $editor,
$category_path_search_opt, $meta_keywords, $meta_description,
$page_title, $editors, $sponsored_link, $num_rows,
$num_rows_sponsored, $num_rows_premium;

[rookers]

global $header, $footer, $category, $category_name, $category_description,
$link, $pagination, $category_path, $content, $editor,
$category_path_search_opt, $meta_keywords, $meta_description,
$page_title, $editors, $sponsored_link, $num_rows,
$num_rows_sponsored, $num_rows_premium;

Ok, $Page is not there. How do I make it work? Sorry if im bugging you but im a newb

[Bruceper]

If it's not there then you cant make it work unless you add the function yourself.

There's lots of other things you can, don't get stuck on one small item.