Change Page Title On Sort? [Script 8.6: A Registration Script]

[bobafifi 1]

Hi Larry,

Google Webmaster tools is flagging this script for making duplicate page titles.  Can you please tell me how best to append/echo the sort order to the page Title in the HTML (switch $link1, $link2, $link3 - lnd, lna, fnd, fna, drd, dra)?

 

Thanks!

[bobafifi 1]

OK - I got something working (not ideal). Made a new variable:

 

<?php
    $pageTitle = "$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
 ?> 

 

and then in the title tags

 

<title>Example <?php echo $pageTitle ; ?></title>

 

Depending on the sort order, would like to change $pageTitle to echo different text, for example "A-Z" or "Z-A" (instead of /example.php?sort=lnd), but at least this prints unique page titles.

[bobafifi 1]

Got it!

 

<?php if (false !== strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'lna')) {
    echo 'A-Z';
}
?>

[Larry 426]

Glad you got it working! I'm not positive that different sorts should be treated as different pages but it's cool you found a solution regardless!

[bobafifi 1]

Hi Larry,

I agree - the sort order shouldn't constitute duplicate pages as there really is no new content being generated, just the same stuff rearranged. However for some reason, Google thinks differently. Maybe because the URL changes slightly, that's all it takes. They can't be sure if it's a new page or not, so they just go with new page?

 

-Bob

Edited July 5, 2017 by bobafifi