CyberSEO - Topic: Post title troubles

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:05:59 +0200

Thank you. That's very helpful.

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:06:01 +0200

This cannot be fixed because it's a feature, not a bug. If you want to remove the "| Site name" part, you should set the following rule in your synonym table:

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Please be sure to check this new article about the built-in Synonymizer/Rewriter: https://www.cyberseo.net/blog/autoblogging-with-synonymizer-and-rewriter/

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:58:08 +0200

For this, I am just going to refer you back to my first post in this thread and your first reply.

At any rate, I have a somewhat working solution for now, so am not going to spend any more time pursuing further fixes.

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:19:05 +0200

No, this is not the same issue. This is a completely different problem. When you extract full-text articles, the plugin parses the original HTML page. Just open any page from your feed in a browser and look at it's source code. You should see something like this:

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The plugin will use the title of the original page as the post title.

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:11:07 +0200

There's not much to say:
If Advanced > Extract full text articles was set to Use Custom settings I had the same problem as before.

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:51:41 +0200

Could you please provide a more detailed description of this problem?

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:48:11 +0200

That was fast! Thank you. That helped fix it.

But also there's something buggy about Advanced > Extract full text articles > Use Custom settings, because I couldn't get rid of the problem of feeds where that was active.

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:31:37 +0200

I made a fix to handle the feeds like yours. Please update the core of your plugin in RSS Retriever->General Settings. It should work properly now.

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:47:32 +0200

I see … You are right.

Login to see this link, <image> is an optional sub-element of <channel>, not of <item>, so normally wouldn't appear there. I didn't even pick up on that until you said it was non-standard.

Thanks for looking into it.

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:12:37 +0200

I see it now. The image title was used instead of the post title. The <image> tag is not a standard RSS tag and this caused the problem. It will be fixed.

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:50:55 +0200

I will send that by email, but please note:

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Yes, exactly. You have reproduced the issue.

If you compare the result shown in your previous post to the original feed (in a browser), you will see that your result is wrong.

I am not using AIOSEO.

Also: Is there a way to escape the | symbol in the synonymizer?

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:18:23 +0200

Please export your feed settings to a file and send it to Login to see this link along with instructions on how to reproduce the problem described above, because when I added your feed and checked it, I got the result shown in my previous post. So I need to be able to reproduce your case on my server. Also, please note that if you are using AIOSEO or similar plugins, they may change your post title in the way described in your first post. This is not something that can be fixed on the RSS Retriever side.

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:13:14 +0200

Thanks. Two answers below.

Re: Original post title

No, that is not the original post title from the feed, as you say. Rather it is the title after having been parsed by the plugin.

It is a concatenation of the post title and the item image's title (i.e. caption) in the original feed.

If you check out the original feed, you will see that the relevant xml originally looks like this:

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<title>Kid Francescoli til Parkteatret</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:15:56 +0200</pubDate>
<description>Etter en utsolgt verdensturné (over 200 konserter i Europa, USA og Asia), og hits som «Nopalitos» (2021), «Blow Up» (2014) og «Moon» (2017), er den Marseille-baserte produsenten og multiinstrumentalisten ivrig etter å spille sitt siste album, ´Sunset Blue', live. Denne fine samlingen av låter hedrer hans middelhavsrøtter med elegante popmelodier.</description>
<guid>(…)</guid>
<link>(…)</link>
<dc:creator>All Things Live Norway</dc:creator>
<image>
<url>(…)</url>
<title>Multitalentet Mathieu Hocine, også kjent som Kid Francescoli, kommer til Parkteatret 22. februar med sin samling av sjelfulle elektronika-låter.</title>
<link>(…)</link>
</image>

</item>

Re: Synonymizer

Using the synonymizer syntax |My Traveling Site| could be helpful, but I'd have to know how to escape the pipe symbol, so I can match that, too.

The problem is that "My Traveling Site" is a name that will often be used in the post itself, so I don't want to remove it everywhere, just in the instances (meta title or not) where it is preceded by a pipe. I.e. "| My Traveling Site", but not "- My Traveling Site"

Is there are preferred and reliable way to do that?

|| My Traveling Site?

|\| My Traveling Site?

| '| My Traveling Site'?

CyberSEO on Post title troubles

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:49:53 +0200

I've added your feed. Here is the original post title:

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And here's the post I got when I pulled the feed:

Could you please tell me what exactly is wrong with it?

nordtomme on Post title troubles

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:38:21 +0200

Thanks. I will try your synonym suggestion.

But while I do, I did check the feed in my browser, and unless I'm missing something, there does seem to be something buggy about the functionality you describe.

See screenshots:

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It may not be the meta title of the post I'm getting, but it looks a lot like it.

Anyway, I'll check back in once I have tried using the synonym table.