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fix: retitle the home and alternatives pages - #13

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Responds to the Ahrefs "Title too long" warning (crawl 2026-10-12) by retitling the two pages that ran well past 60 characters. Both new titles still exceed 60 by one and two characters, on purpose, to keep the search phrases "multiple monitors" and "multi-monitor wallpaper apps for macOS, compared".

Page Old title New title
/alternatives/ Mac apps that span one wallpaper across displays, compared | SpreadPaper (72) Multi-monitor wallpaper apps for macOS, compared | SpreadPaper (62)
/ Span one wallpaper across multiple monitors on a Mac | SpreadPaper (66) One wallpaper across multiple monitors in macOS | SpreadPaper (61)

The alternatives H1 and descriptions are unchanged. The title prop feeds <title>, og:title and twitter:title in one place in Layout.astro, so all three move together. No JSON-LD, nav or listing repeats these titles. The two-monitor guide keeps its current title, since a separate PR rewrites that guide.

Verified: npm test passes and the built titles have the lengths above.

The alternatives, home and two-monitors guide titles ran 72, 66 and 66 characters. They are now 60, 57 and 59, keeping the page subject and the SpreadPaper suffix.
Home becomes 'One wallpaper across multiple monitors in macOS' (61) and alternatives 'Multi-monitor wallpaper apps for macOS, compared' (62), over 60 on purpose to keep the search phrases. The two-monitor guide title returns to its original.
@rvanbaalen rvanbaalen changed the title fix: shorten page titles over 60 characters fix: retitle the home and alternatives pages Oct 12, 2026
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rvanbaalen deleted the fix/alternatives-title-length branch October 12, 2026 17:06
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