Hey Martin,

Do you have another menu to your blog which also includes this post?

Hi Mark,
yes that was the reason - I had a hidden menu activated. But this had a reason, Without these hidden Menu I am not able to set up The META Title tags for the category pages, see here:

https://www.gastware.de/blog/categories/kassensysteme

When I deactivate the hidden menu the META Title of the Category Page is just "Kassensysteme". How can I add META Titles for category pages?

Martin

Hi Martin,

Actually you can prevent the hidden menu from being indexed by search engines by selecting noindex in metadata section(attached).

If you don't want to use this method, you can provide us the back-end access so we can check your configuration and provide you options regarding the category page meta title.

Would be great to find an other solution than noindex. I have added Access details to my first post!

Hey Martin,

If you do not plan to use a menu item, the only other way to modify the single category page title is by adding the site name or blog title or both.

These are the possible formats:
category_name - site_name - blog_title
category_name - site_name
category_name - blog_title

The '-' can also be changed to '|'. If you do not want to use this format and want the page title to be totally different, then you have to use the hidden menu item.

The solution to use the hidden menu items is not acceptable because when I generate 2 URLs for each blog post - I could also let it be because google will see it as duplicate content.

category_name - site_name - blog_title

Can I leave out the blog_title? This system would generate a much too long META Title....

Hey Martin,

Ignore the possible formats from my previous reply, after further checking, only these formats are possible with the current settings.

category_name - site_name - blog_title
category_name
site_name

If you choose the 1st or 3rd formats, you have to enable this in global configuration(either before or after), Site Name in Page Titles.

For 1st format, this setting has to be enabled.
Settings>SEO>General>Append Title On Browser

Well okay - changing Global Konfiguration is no Option because I want to have individual Titles on the whole site.

Adding the Blog title after category name is the only option that is acceptable but not really nice I have to say. You should consider to add this to the feature list to have the possibility to set an individual Meta title also on category pages. Its too important to leave this potential out. For now I can live with this option. thanks.

Btw - I just noticed we are just talking about the Meta Title - But the problem with the Duplicate Meta Description still exists and it seems this is nothing I can change from global configuration - so one more reason to give the user the full control about this.

Btw: I also saw that my tool is complaining about no meta description for these pages:

https://www.gastware.de/blog/tse-kasse?format=amp

Can you tell me if its possible to avoid indexing an URL with "?format=amp" only for an image. Is there a need for that?

Hey Martin,

But the problem with the Duplicate Meta Description still exists

May I know which pages are having the same meta description? Since you already unpublish the single category menu item, the SEO tool should not index the menu item.

Btw: I also saw that my tool is complaining about no meta description for these pages:

https://www.gastware.de/blog/tse-kasse?format=amp

I am able to reproduce this in my local instance. Will log this in our tracker.

Can you tell me if its possible to avoid indexing an URL with "?format=amp" only for an image. Is there a need for that?

Not sure what you mean here. You want to avoid indexing for all urls with '?format=amp'?