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Remove handbook from document title. #506

Open StevenDufresne opened 4 months ago

StevenDufresne commented 4 months ago

Two of the most well visited pages on developer.wp.org are:

Most of the traffic comes from search results.

We currently append the handbook name to the title in the format {post title} - {handbook} name. In my opinon, the handbook title is irrelevant to users and makes the result less appealing.

(the excerpt also need help)

Here's how they appear in Google search results:

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cc @jonoalderson

jonoalderson commented 4 months ago

If we remove that stem, can we be confident that there aren't / won't be a ton of other pages with the same title? Nervous about accidental large-scale duplication of titles. 🤔

StevenDufresne commented 4 months ago

Good point. I'll pull some data as a next step.