SEO (Search Engine Optimization) allows you to improve the visibility of your webpages and web content in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live) via the search results. The higher your website position is in the search engine results page, the more visitors access it. Therefore, it is very important for you to maximize your webpages and content's position in the search engines.
In eXo Platform, the SEO Management feature is featured to meet this target. By using SEO Management, you can easily manage SEO data of web pages and web content and optimize your website for search engines.
Open a page or content that you want to edit the SEO data.
Open the SEO Management form by hovering your cursor over Edit --> Page --> SEO on the Administration bar.
Depending on your SEO management for a page or content, the content of the SEO Management form will be different.
Details:
Field Description Description The description of your page/content. This description will be seen in the results list of search engines. Keywords By using these keywords, other users can find out your page/content via search engines. Robots Search engines can access the whole directories on a website, or individual pages, or individual links on a page and list your page/content or not, it depends on your options: INDEX: Allow search engines to index your page/content on the search engine results page.
NOINDEX: Restrict search engines from indexing your page/content on the search engine results page. Use this option if you want to keep your page private.
FOLLOW: Allow search engines to follow links from your page to find other pages.
NOFOLLOW: Restrict search engines from following links from your page to find other pages. Use this option if you want to prevent spam links in comments of blogs, forums and others.
Sitemap Allow you to see pages of the sites in the tree-like structure. Frequency Show how often pages are updated on the site. Also, setting your frequency levels tells the search engines which pages should be crawled over other pages. The frequency levels include: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly and Never. If you set "Never" for the frequency level, meaning that this page never gets updated, so search engines will move onto other pages that get updated more frequently. Priority Allow search engines to search the page with the higher priority level first. The acceptable value in this field is from 0 to 1. In which, 0 is the lowest priority level and 1 is the highest. Fill out all the fields in the form.
Click Save to finish creating SEO data.
Note
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means that the SEO information has been updated but some information are not filled out yet.
means that the SEO Management form is filled out with the full SEO information.
means that the SEO Management feature is disabled.