Breadcrumbs in <title></title> tag

[nikola]

As you might now it, Google search engine uses <title></title> tag as very relevant source of information about your web site.

Sometimes it's good to use "breadcrumbs" in <title></title> tag to define structure of categories and such.

If you want to use this kind of <title></title> tag instead of regular page title, then you could do the following:

<title><?php
$root = $pages->get('/');
foreach($page->parents()->remove($root)->append($page)->reverse() as $parent) { echo "{$parent->title} - "; }
echo "COMPANY NAME";
?></title>

Replace "COMPANY NAME" with the name of your company etc.

[Adam Kiss]

It's cool tip – with some cool PageArray modification aswell.

Regarding titles itself; I would never do this, unless it would make total sense for visitor (e.g. some kind of eshop, where I can imagine something like 'Yamaha XZ-200 – Electronic keyboards – keyboards – products) – that looks okay. Otherwise, I am more of fan of 'copywrite for people, not google'.

[ryan]

Good tip!

Here's another way to do the same thing (using the slice method to trim off home):

<title><?php
foreach($page->parents()->append($page)->slice(1)->reverse() as $parent) { echo "{$parent->title} - "; }
echo "COMPANY NAME";
?></title>

[thomassausen]

Thanks. And if you want this title on homepage:

<title>Company Name - {$parent->title}</title>

And on all other sites:

<title>{$parent->title} - Company Name</title>

?

[SiNNuT]

With some conditional logic like

$homepage = $pages->get('/');
if($page === $homepage) {
    echo "<title>Company Name - {$parent->title}</title>";
} else {
    echo "<title>{$parent->title} - Company Name</title>";
}

[ryan]

Another way to check for homepage is just if the $page->id === 1; because the homepage always has an ID of 1.