Page title generator on browser tab rebuilded.

src/modules/seo/buildMetadata.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export type PageMetadata = {
     locale?: string
     title: string
   }
+  /** robots directives — set to noindex/follow for legal/thin/search pages. */
   robots?: {
     follow: boolean
     index: boolean
@@ -43,6 +44,13 @@ type BuildMetadataArgs = {
   meta?: null | SeoMeta
   /** Page title or site name first. Defaults to 'page-first'. */
   order?: TitleOrder
+  /**
+   * The document's own title (e.g. page.title = 'Sprzątanie biur'). Used as the
+   * page-title source when meta.title is empty — the browser tab and search
+   * result should show the page name, not go blank, when an editor didn't fill
+   * the SEO title. Priority: titleOverride > meta.title > pageTitle.
+   */
+  pageTitle?: null | string
   /**
    * Localized segment the document lives under (an archive page's slugs).
    * Feeds both canonical and hreflang, so /pl/artykuly/moj-post and
@@ -82,16 +90,21 @@ export function buildMetadata({
   locale,
   meta,
   order,
+  pageTitle,
   prefix,
   query,
   separator,
   siteName,
   slugs,
 }: BuildMetadataArgs): PageMetadata {
-  // titleOverride wins outright: an editor who filled it in wants that exact
-  // string in the tab, not a composition.
+  // Title source priority: titleOverride (exact, wins outright) > meta.title
+  // (SEO title an editor set) > pageTitle (the document's own name). This means
+  // a page with no SEO title still shows its name (e.g. 'Sprzątanie biur')
+  // composed with the site name, instead of just the site name or a blank.
   const override = meta?.titleOverride?.trim()
-  const title = override || composeTitle({ order, pageTitle: meta?.title, separator, siteName })
+  const resolvedPageTitle = meta?.title?.trim() || pageTitle?.trim() || undefined
+  const title =
+    override || composeTitle({ order, pageTitle: resolvedPageTitle, separator, siteName })
   const description = meta?.description?.trim() || undefined
   const origin = baseUrl?.replace(/\/$/, '') ?? ''
 
@@ -116,12 +129,14 @@ export function buildMetadata({
       ...(canonical && { canonical }),
       ...(Object.keys(languages).length > 0 && { languages }),
     },
-    ...(meta?.noindex ? { robots: { follow: true, index: false } } : {}),
     openGraph: {
       title,
       ...(description && { description }),
       ...(images && { images }),
       locale,
     },
+    // noindex → tell search engines to exclude the page but still follow links
+    // (authority flows through). For legal/thin/search-result pages.
+    ...(meta?.noindex ? { robots: { follow: true, index: false } } : {}),
   }
 }

src/modules/seo/createPageMetadata.ts

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ type PageMetadataContext = {
 type DocShape = {
   id: number | string
   meta?: null | SeoMeta
+  /** The document's own title (page name), used as the fallback page title. */
+  title?: null | string
 }
 
 /** plugin-seo stores the OG image as an upload relationship. */
@@ -151,6 +153,7 @@ export function createPageMetadata(args: CreatePageMetadataArgs) {
       ...base,
       imageUrl: resolveOgImage(doc),
       meta: doc.meta,
+      pageTitle: doc.title,
       prefix,
       query,
       slugs,