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visioneer

08-22-2004 05:58 PM

How to index only part of page <title>?

How can I only index part of the page titles. I have the same beginning text one all pages. I don't want to index that part of the title. Can I exclude a string from indexing so that it won't index that part of the page titles. Perhaps I should use a meta tag for the page title. Also in connection with this, when I previously tried using the  tag to exclude the <title> from indexing it resulted in search results with no title text at all. So if I were to exclude the <title> when indexing how to I make the results show a page title?

This is the site I'm working with:
http://www.clba.org

Charter

08-24-2004 08:03 PM

Hi. Search for $title = trim($regs[1]); in robot_functions.php and then substr or str_replace it.

visioneer

08-24-2004 09:43 PM

Not Quite It...

Thanks but that only really removed the title text that is stored after a page has been indexed. The full title is already indexed prior to that function.

Charter

08-24-2004 10:00 PM

Did you try a reindex? If you don't want to reindex, you'll need to edit the first_words column of the spider table to remove a portion of the title.

visioneer

08-24-2004 10:24 PM

Yes, that was after the reindex. What seemed to work was placing the following:

Code:

//replace site-wide title text

$text = str_replace("Church of the Lutheran Brethren : ","",$text);

//replace common site-wide text

$text = str_replace("Church of the Lutheran Brethren","",$text);

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