[docs] Wrong title on Google for the Base UI website - SEO

[flaviendelangle]

Docs feedback

How can we improve Base UI documentation?

Not sure why but the Base UI website is titled "Netlify" when looking for it on Google.

[vladmoroz]

Seeing this on the second page of googling "base ui react"

[colmtuite]

Idk, I can't figure this out. Netlify is not mentioned anywhere in the repo unnecessarily. Any ideas @oliviertassinari?

[flaviendelangle]

Maybe it's because we don't have any title set (either in the repo or in some Netlify config) that by default Netlify sets its own title 🤷

[oliviertassinari]

Idk, I can't figure this out. Netlify is not mentioned anywhere in the repo unnecessarily.

@colmtuite The slot where we see "Netlify" is called the "site name" https://www.notion.so/mui-org/docs-infra-Change-docs-domain-0ce329e7ebc34aba8fbf4f3c5e13eb5d?pvs=4#fbf1b7880fd04d55968e9d2c2d7f100e

Google's generation of site names on the Google Search results page is completely automated and takes into account content from a site's home page and references to it that appear on the web. The goal of the site name in Google Search is to best represent and describe the source of each result.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names

I can see the same problem on my end:

I suspect that Google will figure it out by himself after some time. In MUI, we have added ld+json tags, last edited in mui/material-ui#34382. I doubt we need to do this though now.

So my proposal would be:

1. Wait 7 days, be lazy
2. If it's still an issue, try to copy MUI: https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/cef5e6cd7af197c835acb3b1a37733f7e82902f2/docs/pages/index.tsx#L28. Though in our case, it's not an org, so more like https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names#website.

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Off-topics.

1. In theory (I have seen him in ahrefs crawls do this all the time), it will remove the Base UI from the title too:

3. The URL path name doesn't seem to work super well https://base-ui.com/react/components/slider shows as:

but it feels like https://base-ui.com/react-slider would be shorter, and clearer:

As in:

[oliviertassinari]

It's still broken on my end:

Strange, maybe it's still too early.

[michaldudak]

I can see "base-ui.com" for the home page and subpages:

[flaviendelangle]

Same, it seems to be fixed now 👌

[oliviertassinari]

@flaviendelangle It's still wrong IMHO, site name should be "Base UI" but it's "base-ui.com" on your screenshot.