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title tags and meta info

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  1. scott@adszoom.com
    Member

    Hi
    I notice if I make a HTML form and use it as a submit form it automatically uses the title as meta info. Example if I post then copy and past that posts title into the Google search if unique it will pull up the post in the search results. I can’t get this to do the same using a Gravity form for some reason. Is there something I’m missing in the theme or a setting in the form? Maybe a merge tag in the title field , like “embedded url” or and such?

    Ps I do have this in my header

    <?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { wp_title('',true); } else { bloginfo('description'); } ?> — <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

    not sure if applies to GF?

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday October 6, 2012 | Permalink

  2. scott@adszoom.com
    Member

    Haa I think if I put a <meta> like in a reg post form title field this would make the titles " searchable " via google.?

    Where would I put this tag?

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday October 7, 2012 | Permalink

  3. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Scott, what are you talking about?!

    Are you creating posts with Gravity Forms, and you are wondering how to modify the post title?

    Do you have an example of the form which would create such a post, and then, do you have an example of a post which was created with the form? Then, explain what from the form should be used for the title of the post, literally the html <title> tag. Thank you. You have a very custom use for Gravity Forms and we sometimes forget where you are in your process to get things tweaked exactly how you want them. I think this is probably a simple setting but I am not sure yet what you're talking about. Thank you for any additional information you can provide.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 8, 2012 | Permalink

  4. scott@adszoom.com
    Member

    Hi
    Chris thanks sorry I was veg...
    To start over so its not confusing.

    Ok if you go to our sister site thebartertown. net and copy a title of one of the posts into the Google search, it will pull the ad up in the search result as it should. If I do the same thing on adszoom using the gravity form it dose not. Both site's use the same Plinks

    /%post_id%/%category%/%postname%/

    So on thebartertown that regular HTML form uses the title as meta info... I wanna make sure the gravity form is doing the same on adszoom. I have read all seo info in Google web master tools and have gone threw everything before i posted this topic, like you said it maybe a setting Im missing?

    The only reason this is so important is because our clients find there ads / posts this way and I get ticket after ticket asking me why it dose not work the same.. Don't know if you can help but if you can that's grate!

    side note: I did notice if you hover over the titles at adszoom it dose say " permalink to ( post title ) " it dose not do this on the post's on the other site.. Don't know if that relevant or not just fyi

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 8, 2012 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Can you post a link to a post which was created with Gravity Forms on adzoom so I can check the title and compare to a post on thebartertown. net. I will need a URL for each site so I can compare the titles.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 8, 2012 | Permalink

  7. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    OK, I assume all those post are being created by Gravity Forms?

    There is nothing wrong with the posts. The page title is there in the <title> tag, and the post title is displayed properly. You seem to be questioning why Google has not indexed them based on the title, which works on your sister site thebartertown. net? Is that the issue?

    Here is one Google Search: http://bit.ly/SIQm3M

    That brings up a bunch of pages from your site, but not the single post that I can see. I'm not sure why Google is not indexing your single post. Do you have Google Webmaster tools or related that would point out an issue with your robots.txt or indexing?

    Also, I have heard that Google cannot always index your page if it has XHTML validation errors. Maybe you need to correct those? http://bit.ly/R7xKZ2

    I doubt it's the validation, but it's worth a shot.

    I don't think you have anything misconfigured in Gravity Forms, but there may still be a difference between the two sites causing this indexing problem.

    You did not post any links to thebartertown - I would like to check the header (h1, h2, h3, h4 etc) which is used for the single post title. Maybe that's related?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 8, 2012 | Permalink

  8. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    I do see this difference in the robots.txt:

    http://www.adszoom.com/robots.txt
    http://www.thebartertown.net/robots.txt

    The wp-includes and wp-admin should not matter. But how about a sitemap for adszoom? I see the sitemap is located here http://www.adszoom.com/sitemap.xml.gz but it's just not added to the robots.txt? Was it submitted to the search engines, or was it at least done identically to thebartertown?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 8, 2012 | Permalink

  9. scott@adszoom.com
    Member

    Thanks Chris it was because in my footer.php I had my category's links for each category on all most all pages so out of 75k pages 65k where " non selected " for duplicate content... So that was the issue it looks like. I Removed the footer links to all category's an the " non selected " in the web master tools when down to 45k and dropping.. Sorry Im so critical about these forms its just that im duplicating the site this week 420 times and gotta get it right... Ill read up on the HXTML issue thanks for the reads up...

    Ps don't worry it will all be over soon but just make sure from now on with googles new rules you do not have dup content in your header.php including <meta> and also dup links and such in your footer.php or they will kill your page rank for duplicate content...

    Thanks again my frienddd

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 10, 2012 | Permalink

  10. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Sure thing. Duplicate content would hurt you too; I didn't think about that. Glad you resolved it for now. On to the next one :-)

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 10, 2012 | Permalink

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