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Hello All,
A client's site was recently redesigned and since the redesign the is not displaying as such in the search engines when created using Option+R on a Mac. If it is created using it works fine.
I suspect it has something to do with the programming or the CMS. Other sites on this CMS seem to not have this problem from what I have seen so far.
As more time goes on, title tags and descriptions that are months or years old are also digressing to the 0.
I have cued up a few tests and once crawled will have narrowed down whether it is a CMS issue or not. Won't have completely done so, but much closer. The CMS says they have made no changes that would have caused this.
The programming gang on my end says they did nothing different on this site then on others so it can't be on us.
The classic 'no way it can by us, it has to be them' from all angles.
I am stuck in the middle trying to find the solution.
Has anyone else ever come across this problem?
Thoughts?
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Never had this problem but was recommended by Will Critchlow to use HTML encoding for special characters He said that they "tend to advise going for ASCII only" and "HTML entities should generally be fine"
So perhaps all instances should be changed to .
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I haven't had this problem, but I have had weird things in the CMS I use. It was something about how the CMS generated the code that made it get funky.
Can you add it outside of the CMS perhas directly to a skin or source code?
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