SEO meta - Multiple fallback options?

Question

I've looked at SEO Lite and NSM Better Meta.

These SEO addons come with 1 default fallback template. By "fallback" I am referring to fallback meta data that displays if there is no title, description, or keyword values saved to the entry.

I need to be able to have different fallback SEO meta on a per section basis if no SEO meta is entered for an entry. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have you seen my blog post on SEO & ExpressionEngine. I'm sure using that approach would get you partway to what you want to do.

Additionally I would take a look at SurgEEo - which I believe addresses some of what I was trying to do in the blog post linked above. I'm going to be trying out SurgEEo on my next build so can't guarantee this yet.

Answer 2

SEO Lite has tag parameters that allow you to override the default meta data directly within the template. So you can do something like this:

{exp:channel:entries limit='1'}
    {if channel_short_name == 'blog'}
        {exp:seo_lite 
            entry_id='{entry_id}'
            default_title='Blog'
            default_description='The bestest blog in the whole wide world.'
            default_keywords='blog, posts, stuff, junk, things'
        }
    {/if}
    {if channel_short_name == 'contact'}
        {exp:seo_lite 
            entry_id='{entry_id}'
            default_title='Contact'
            default_description='Contact us because we are awesome.'
            default_keywords='contact, email, form, notify'
        }
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

There's a similar example in the docs that uses embedded template variables.