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linkedpipes / dcat-ap-viewer

Viewer of DCAT-AP 2.0.1 compatible dataset metadata
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Enhance page descriptions in Google search results #130

Closed jakubklimek closed 4 years ago

jakubklimek commented 5 years ago

In google search results, some pages have inappropriate titles, which can be seen in google search console. Examples are:

skodapetr commented 5 years ago

What is the actual title in google search and what is the expected title?

jakubklimek commented 5 years ago

We need to decide whether filtered pages should be indexed at all. If yes, we need to represent the current filter in the page title. Currently, there is many results in Google for various filter settings, with all pages having the same "datasets" title.

jakubklimek commented 4 years ago

It would be better if the "filtered" pages would not be indexed at all. I am not sure that the current approach with canonical works.

skodapetr commented 4 years ago

They are only a recommendation, google can decide to ignore them. They are also not used in a same way by Google and other search engines.

I've also heard an opinion that we should actually support indexing of different categories }filters] and use canonicals only for sorting.

But from @jakubklimek it is not clear what action should be taken. Should we use <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> for dataset list?

jakubklimek commented 4 years ago

We agreed that we will add the following to page title:

Also, canonical links need to be adjusted (filters added)