-Ed

That still won't help with the search engine indexing. They are picking up the site title (which you see displayed in the title bar of your browser). The 30 character limit is what's causing the issue. All the other solutions like replacing the header with a graphic showing the desired title won't help to get the longer name Rob wants to use indexed properly.

-Ed

What if you changed CSS so the text title matches the background color and make the text size really small so it doesn't mess with the image.

Normally I wouldn't condone this, but given the situation it appears to be the only solution and the first time where I see the "hidden text" concept as acceptable.

-Ed

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It's not the way it looks in the site that is the problem, it is the way that it is returned in google or bing search results that is the problem.

yea, i realized that after i had already posted that "solution"

idk why anyone would rate this down

That also strikes me as odd (maybe even a little childish). Let people name their website however they want—and please remember that most languages have, in average, longer words than English, and that many Wikidot sites were NOT born and raised here (mine was migrated from Googlepages, where such restrictions do not exist, and I wish I could have kept its original, official title…).

Rob

But if even this small change generally helps then that is a good thing.

Rob

How about LL R&C (in lowercase llr&c)?

No, I cannot use abbreviations in this case. Life would be simpler if I could.

Rob

Like for example, with Commonwealth Bank (In Australia)

Hozah! Another Aussie!

Two is company, but three is a crowd Shane!

Next time, call it site title. Besides, that's what it is called in the admin panel.

The admin panel was recently changed to say "site title", and said "site name" previously (two days ago, in fact!)
http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-184477/2009-09-24

(Cannot delete my own post here: URGH!)

A general rule with website names is to keep them short. Like for example, with Commonwealth Bank (In Australia), they shortened their name to commbank. Otherwise not as many people would go to the website and thus, the company is unprofitable.

I had a cousin who's site name was alphanumeric and was 18 characters long. That url was very hard remembering and I told him that site names should not be passwords as a joke.

I reckon it is unnecessary to do this. I'll cancel my negative vote but I still won't vote positive.

BTW, if it's the title you're talking about, there is a slight difference between title and site names.

I am puzzled that you and others have given this a negative rating and can only assume it is because you didn't understand the difference between the site name and url and the impact the site name has. There are specific instances, though probably not very many, where the site name needs to be longer than 30 characters. I have one of those specific instances where a site I have to develop should have the site name "Lord Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty". Abbreviating to Ross & Cromarty would be allowed but is also longer than 30 characters, and no other abbreviation will be accepted. It is currently Lord Lieutenant Ross Cromarty which is not what is wanted. It will come up again if or when I am asked to develop sites for the Lord Lieutenant of the Northern Isles or the Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles.

The reason this is important

On the site itself I have used an image with the full title so that is fine. But the reason this is important is that google, bing and other search engines index our sites by what is in the site name box. Therefore it currently appears with an incorrect title in the search results on google and bing and the person I am developing the site for will not be happy when they realise this. I hadn't seen that this had been raised as a wish here on the community site so I also raised it as wish 340 on the pro site.

Rob