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04. SEO Template Meta

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Andrew Welch edited this page Apr 18, 2019 · 10 revisions

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This Craft CMS 2.x plugin is no longer supported, but it is fully functional, and you may continue to use it as you see fit. The license also allows you to fork it and make changes as needed for legacy support reasons.

The Craft CMS 3.x version of this plugin can be found here: craft-seomatic and can also be installed via the Craft Plugin Store in the Craft CP.

SEO Template Meta

This list of Template Metas will initially be empty; click on the New Template Meta button to create one.

These SEO Meta settings are used to render the SEO Meta for your website. You can create any number of SEO Template Metas associated with your Twig templates on your website.

They are used in combination with the SEO Template Meta settings to generate JSON-LD microdata, Dublin Core core metadata, Twitter Cards, Facebook OpenGraph, and as well as HTML meta tags.

If no Template Meta exists for a template, the SEO Site Meta is used.

If any fields are left blank in a Template Meta, those fields are pulled from the SEO Site Meta.

You can also dynamically change any of these SEO Meta fields in your Twig templates, and they will appear in the rendered SEO Meta.

  • Title - The human readable title for this SEO Template Meta
  • Template Path - Enter the path to the template to associate this meta with (just as you would on the Section settings). It will override the SEO Site Meta for this template. Leave any field blank if you want it to fall back on the default global settings for that field.
  • Main Entity of Page - The Main Entity of Page is a more specific, additional type that describes this page. This additional JSON-LD structured data entity will be added to your page, more specifically describing the page's content. It is accessible via the seomaticMainEntityOfPage Twig variable, should you wish to modify or add to it.
  • SEO Title - This should be between 10 and 70 characters (spaces included). Make sure your title tag is explicit and contains your most important keywords. Be sure that each page has a unique title tag.
  • SEO Description - This should be between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included). Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results. Ensure that all of your web pages have a unique meta description that is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
  • SEO Keywords - Google ignores this tag; though other search engines do look at it. Utilize it carefully, as improper or spammy use most likely will hurt you, or even have your site marked as spam. Avoid overstuffing the keywords and do not include keywords that are not related to the specific page you place them on.
  • SEO Image - This is the image that will be used for display as the webpage brand for this template, as well as on Twitter Cards and Facebook OpenGraph that link to this page, if they are not specified. The image must be in JPG, PNG, or GIF format.
  • SEO Image Transform - The image transform to apply to the Site SEO Image.
  • Twitter Card Type - With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos and information to Tweets that drive traffic to your website. Users who Tweet links to your content will have a “Card” added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers.
  • Twitter Card Image - This is the image that will be used for Twitter Cards that link to this page. If no image is specified here, the Site SEO Image will be used for Twitter Cards instead. The image must be in JPG, PNG, or GIF format.
  • Twitter Card Image Transform - The image transform to apply to the Twitter Card Image. Twitter recommends: 120 x 120 pixels minimum size, 1:1 aspect ratio, 1mb max size for Summary Card images, and 280x150 pixels minimum size, 1.86:1 aspect ratio, 1mb max size for Summary Card with Large Image images.
  • Facebook OpenGraph Type - Adding OpenGraph tags to your website influences the performance of your links on social media by allowing you to control what appears when a user posts a link to your content on Facebook.
  • Facebook OpenGraph Image - This is the image that will be used for Facebook posts that link to this page. If no image is specified here, the Site SEO Image will be used for Facebook posts instead. The image must be in JPG, PNG, or GIF format.
  • Facebook Image Transform - The image transform to apply to the Facebook OpenGraph Image. Facebook recommends: 1200 x 630 pixels minimum size, 1.9:1 aspect ratio, 8mb max size.
  • Robots - The robots meta tag lets you utilize a granular, page-specific approach to controlling how an individual page should be indexed and served to users in search results. Setting it to a blank value means 'no change'.

The SEO Title, SEO Description, and SEO Keywords fields can include tags that output entry properties, such as {title} or {myCustomField} in them.

You can use any Craft environmentVariables in these fields in addition to static text, e.g.:

This is my {baseUrl}
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