Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-1370845-20151211233544

Thanks for the response, Angelina. SEOkitten wrote:

"Avoid repeated or boilerplate titles. It’s important to have distinct, descriptive titles for each page on your site. [ . . . ] Long titles that vary by only a single piece of information ("boilerplate" titles) are also bad; for example, a standardized title like " - See videos, lyrics, posters, albums, reviews and concerts" contains a lot of uninformative text."

"Brand your titles, but concisely. The title of your site’s home page is a reasonable place to include some additional information about your site—for instance, "ExampleSocialSite, a place for people to meet and mingle." But displaying that text in the title of every single page on your site hurts readability and will look particularly repetitive if several pages from your site are returned for the same query" (emphasis mine).

This is a reasonable explanation for removing pagetitles - and I imagine, simply moving the "a place for people to meet and mingle" in the example to the main page or something would be the solution there - the only problem is that it does not offer a solution for wikis such as Wookieepedia (despite how well they probably do in SEO regardless, losing "the Star Wars wiki" is probably still a hit), or where the site name causes display issues (such as "Ratchet &amp; Clank wiki" - yes, that appears in the desktop tab). Would allow rare instances of pagetitles, or introducing a character limit, not be a reasonable way to allow these wikis to display a slightly different pagetitle, while not displaying ones that are ultimately more detrimental?