Thread: How to Change News Title Tag

Hello...I'm sure this is simple but can't find it...how can I change the title tag for the News page? Google is seeing this as a duplicate title tag (same as index title).

all of these pages are duplicates:
news.aspx
news.aspx?showarticle=2
news.aspx?showarticle=6

I don't know what the second and third ones are...

Thanks!
Beth

Version (Code/DB): AspDotNetStorefront ML 7.1.0.0/7.1.0.0
http://www.obedding.com

bhansel:

I'm interested in this too! I thought I'd bump this thread and see if anyone has some ideas. Are there any new DB fields in a newer version of ML? I'm using ML 8, perhaps soon to upgrade to v9.

It'd be a nice idea to add a few DB fields for article SEO if they haven't been added already in v9.

In xmlpackages\page.news.xml.config we added the following between the
</PackageTransform> and </package> at the end of the file:

Code:

	<SearchEngineSettings>
		<SETitle actionType="transform">
			<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:aspdnsf="urn:aspdnsf" exclude-result-prefixes="aspdnsf">
				<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
				<xsl:template match="/">
					<xsl:apply-templates select="/root/NewsArticles/Article" />
				</xsl:template>
				<xsl:template match="Article">
					<xsl:param name="temp">
						<xsl:if test="/root/QueryString/showarticle=NewsID">
							<xsl:value-of select="concat(Headline,' (News from ESE)')" />
						</xsl:if>
					</xsl:param>
					<xsl:param name="setoutput">
						<xsl:choose>
							<xsl:when test="$temp=''">
							</xsl:when>
							<xsl:otherwise>
								<xsl:value-of select="$temp" />
							</xsl:otherwise>
						</xsl:choose>
					</xsl:param>
					<xsl:value-of select="$setoutput"  disable-output-escaping="yes" />
				</xsl:template>
			</xsl:stylesheet>
		</SETitle>
		<SEDescription actionType="transform">
			<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:aspdnsf="urn:aspdnsf" exclude-result-prefixes="aspdnsf">
				<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
				<xsl:template match="/">
					<xsl:apply-templates select="/root/NewsArticles/Article" />
				</xsl:template>
				<xsl:template match="Article">
					<xsl:if test="/root/QueryString/showarticle=NewsID">
						<xsl:value-of select="NewsCopy" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
					</xsl:if>
				</xsl:template>
			</xsl:stylesheet>
		</SEDescription>
		<SEKeywords actionType="transform">
			<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:aspdnsf="urn:aspdnsf" exclude-result-prefixes="aspdnsf">
				<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
				<xsl:template match="/">
					<xsl:apply-templates select="/root/NewsArticles/Article" />
				</xsl:template>
				<xsl:template match="Article">
					<xsl:param name="setoutput" select="concat('news,ESE news,',Headline)"></xsl:param>
					<xsl:if test="/root/QueryString/showarticle=NewsID">
						<xsl:value-of select="$setoutput" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
					</xsl:if>
				</xsl:template>
			</xsl:stylesheet>
		</SEKeywords>
	</SearchEngineSettings>

This will change the title, meta description and meta keywords for each page of the news that you have. Annoyingly, couldn't work out how to change it for the news page on it's own.

Thanks esedirect! That is very helpful!

I'll return the favor... although this may be a bit of a hack. You can override the default news page title, and meta tags in news.aspx.cs in the Page_Load event. You can see by default it pulls the page title from the string resources, but doesn't do anything for the meta tags. If you want to do it right you might write some manageable way to load the meta tags here as well. I just hardcoded it...

Code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	if(AppLogic.AppConfigBool("GoNonSecureAgain"))
	{
		SkinBase.GoNonSecureAgain();
	}

    // this may be overwridden by the XmlPackage below!
    SectionTitle = AppLogic.GetString("news.aspx.1", SkinID, ThisCustomer.LocaleSetting);

    // set the Customer context, and set the SkinBase context, so meta tags to be set if they are not blank in the XmlPackage results
    XmlPackage1.SetContext = this;

   SectionTitle = "Lynx System Integrators News";
   SETitle = "Lynx System Integrators News";
   SEDescription = "Lynx System Integrators News - Tips, Info, and more.";
}

Hopefully this helps some of you!
Regards,
Ben

Ben,

I wanted to thank you for this tip. This solved my issue of the dupe title tags in the sitemap, manufacturers, news, and contact pages.