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#81: Dynamically add course name to title tags for SEO purposes

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Proposal
  3. Implementation
Add course name to title tags for SEO purposes to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for eduCommons sites.
Proposed by
Cathy Schulz
Proposal type
Architecture
State
being-discussed

Motivation

Improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for eduCommons sites so they are ranked higher by search engines -- and ultimately so the content gets used by more people.

Proposal

It seems that one of the most (if not the most) important things is what goes in the title tag. The way the currently software works, we end up with the exact same titles appearing on multiple pages. For example, every course syllabus page has the title, “Syllabus - Institution Name OpenCourseWare” (<title>Lectures &mdash; Institution Name OpenCourseWare</title>). It seems that it would be fairly straightforward to generate something like, “Syllabus – Course Name - Institution Name OpenCourseWare“ to make the titles unique to each page. (See http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors)

Implementation

Add course name to title tags for SEO purposes to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for eduCommons sites.