Generative title wrongly indexed by Google

[jeremydouglass]

Nature of issue?

• Found a bug
• Existing feature enhancement

Details about the bug:

Currently the Google search engine indexes the web editor along with its generative title. So, for example, it is currently listed as: "p5.js web editor | Stormy moss"

This makes the entry look like a link to a specific sketch -- or to something specific -- when it is not, it is the editor homepage.

Change:

It would be nice to alter the time / conditions under which generated titles are added to the title bar so that robots (such as the Google crawler) do not index them, but instead list only "p5.js web editor"

[catarak]

Thanks for reporting! I have noticed this but I'm not sure how to fix it. I really don't know a ton about search engine indexing and SEO. Any suggestions or ideas about how to fix this are very welcome 😄

[jeremydouglass]

One suggestion would be: don't write the sketch name into the page title until:

a) the user clicks save, or
b) the user clicks "run" for the first time

Bots never click save or run, so no bot will never index or cache a page with "Sleepy Wheelchair" etc. in the title.

[catarak]

One suggestion would be: don't write the sketch name into the page title until:

a) the user clicks save, or
b) the user clicks "run" for the first time

Bots never click save or run, so no bot will never index or cache a page with "Sleepy Wheelchair" etc. in the title.

Wow thank you! I didn't realize this would be so simple to fix, I'm on it!

[jeremydouglass]

Just looping back here to confirm that this fix worked -- the web editor is indexed in all search engines as expected.