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Just browsing the forum and noticed this thread... Looks like you've changed to WordPress, but I just wanted to post an answer should anyone else need it.

Based on your description, the page title and navigation items are currently being generated from the same field (likely, the default "title" field) in the entry.  Moreover, it's certainly not unusual to want them to be different (navigation title generally much shorter).

You'll want to add a new custom field specifically for the navigation title, adjust the template that generates the navigation to use this new field, and continue using the main Title field the way you wanted.

Assuming you're on ExpressionEngine 2.x (released july 2010), you'll add the new field through Admin > Channel Administration > Custom Fields.

To adjust the template that generates the navigation, you'll want to go to Design > Templates > Edit.  If you're familiar with HTML, you can open the Index template and drill down to wherever the navigation is likely located at.  You'll probably find an "embed" statement that references another template specifically for navigation.  Just use whatever name is in the embed statement to find the navigation template, and go back to Design > Templates > Edit to open that template up.  From there, you'll want to change the {title} tags to the name of the new navigation title field you created  - {my_new_field} .

If you're on 1.x, the process is very similar, but the templates and custom fields are in a slightly different location - let me know if you need additional help.

I don't work for ExpressionEngine, but I do want to mention, for whatever it's worth, that I've used most major CMSs (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.), and stopped when I got to EE.  If you're comfortable with HTML, you'll find it's an extremely powerful CMS, especially for SEO.

Should anyone need any help with ExpressionEngine, you can find a list of developers at http://www.director-ee.com, or you can always visit their forums

I didn't see any recent test for 2013, but it's been analyzed quite a bit, and the 2 links below expand a bit on what I mentioned.

The conclusion on the first one below is that it won't index content loaded dynamically from a javascript file on another server/domain.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really

Here's the link that talks about extra programming necessary to make AJAX content crawlable and indexable.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174992

Did you get a chance to have your developer look at your code?  Here's a snippet -

### ${text}

There's another one right above that I suspect also includes some items that aren't parsing.

<fieldset class="question">
<legend>${question}</legend>
{{each answers}}

<label for="q${$data.id}a${$index}">${text}</label>

{{/each}}
</fieldset>

It's more than likely template code specific to the MonkCMS that isn't getting processed - perhaps there's not a matching variable / object setup in the system.

You will notice that both sections are currently hidden, so maybe you can just do without them altogether?

If you want to have total control over what goes into the title on each and every page, as your developer mentioned, that would definitely require some extra custom programming - can't begin to give a ballpark figure without talking more specifics.

If you're okay with something at least semi-standard across the board that would just include having the actual property address in the title, I can't see that taking more than a couple of hours of programming (if that).

Without looking at the actual source, I'm 99% sure that your property details are already being stored in a database.  With that said, I imagine they can just duplicate the existing header into a new file (i.e. header2.cfm), insert CFM code into the title tag that pulls the property address, and then replace the header file that is currently included in the rentaldetail.cfm page with the new one.

Should you make any global changes in the header in the future, you will need to update both header files.

There's really probably a variety of ways to handle this, but that's my 2 cents.

For whatever it's worth...

I've worked on several real estate websites myself.  They can get rather complicated.  There's definitely a great deal of power in developing your own solution, but it can be costly and time-consuming - you can easily spend $20K for something good.

If you see yourself continuing to need other programming adjustments, it may be easier to jump over to one of the more customizable commercial solutions, such as http://www.diversesolutions.com or http://www.realestatewebmasters.com .  Please note that I'm not trying to bump your developer out of work - they can certainly assist with either of the above solutions, and will likely be necessary for the first one.

Hope that helps -

If your ASP code is used primarily for dynamically generating HTML (at or before page load), and the HTML isn't changing, and your URLs are staying the same, I can't see how SEO would be affected or why you'd run into any problems.

If the upgrade includes code modifications that change the way the pages load, however, it could affect SEO depending on how that's handled.

I imagine you were looking for the answer posted by EEE3 regarding Google Analytics, but just wanted to mention that term is also common on the more technical side of web development, relating to both Flash & Javascript, and I imagine some other languages.

Moreover, it refers to situations where a program on a site, or in your browser (javascript) is trying to communicate with and access data from another website / domain name.

For instance, if you have a flash program on your website that accesses data (such as photos) from another website, the website hosting the actual data may need to add your website to their crossdomain.xml file.

I don't see evidence of a popular CMS being utilized on the page you mentioned, but it does use ColdFusion, which is a scripting language, and I would guess is probably communicating with a database that holds the various details for each property listing.  I don't think it would be too difficult for your developer to pull the address into the title tag.