Questions tagged [seo]
Questions related to Search engine optimization (SEO).
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How do you “hide” sites from search engines during development?
I'm in the process of tweaking my base install and was wondering how you hide sites from search engines when deployed to a publicly accessible DEV or STAGING server?
I currently:
Add a robot.txt ...
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Exclude ?URL redirect from site 404's
I'm administering EE site with forum. On the forum, there are many redirects in the form of http://domain.com/?URL=http://third-party-site.com/page.html
Recently, Google started returning 404 for my ...
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ExpressionEngine pagination: access last segment
I am working on some search engine optimisation for my ExpressionEngine site. I need to add some link tags into my head to allow Google crawlers to acknowledge the relationship between paginated ...
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SEO addon - recommendations?
I'm about to work on some basic SEO for my EE site. I'm trying to dynamically set the title, meta description, OpenGraph tags, and do XML Sitemaps. I've already started trying to dynamically set the ...
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Changing the url structure of established site?
Just a quick question regarding the URL (template) structures in expression engine.
I have an established site that has been live for almost a year. I was brand new to EE when I set up and therefore ...
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SEO Lite & Switchee
OK, so i've had a great deal of help on here on the rebuild of my site, and I'm onto the last part which is to make sure my pages meta, titles etc are working well.
I have switched (pun) a lot of my ...
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Renaming image file names
I have a client that would like to edit file names for photos that site members have uploaded. She wants to rename them for SEO purposes. (e.g. changing name from DSC_00234.jpg to a-descriptive-title....
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Ability to add custom Canonical link
Is there any way to add custom Canonical link, title, meta description and keywords
with any addon in EE?
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How do you a hide a page from search engine results in EE?
I have a page I want to share with specific group of users. I'm thinking the best way to keep it exclusive is to keep it out of search results.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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index.php and page rank
Does the inclusion of index.php in the URL negatively affect the page rank of each page within an expressionengine site?
Example:
www.domain.com/index.php/about-us vs www.domain.com/about-us
www....
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SEO & SEO friendly URLs
My Channel entry page's URL is something like the following:
http://site.com/template_group/entry_id/{field_1}-{field_2}-{field_3}...
The {field_1}-{field_2}-{field_3}... part is actually just ...
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Expresso Store - Add product SKU to page title on product detail pages
I'm trying to automate the output of SKU's into the page's title for all my product pages for SEO reasons however I'm struggling on how to go about this.
I'm using SEO lite for outputting page titles ...
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Define links with a trailing slash /
I have a site where all the main navigation links (Top Navigation, footer nav and html sitemap page) link to URLs without a trailing slash, however the canonical tags for all pages end with trailing ...
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Link rel=“next” and rel=“previous” pagination in header
how can i apply pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev to pagination in the header?
i want to add
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3" />
and
<link ...
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What is the best method for automating SEO META data on a site
Ok, I could be over complicating things, but here is what I am up against and what all I have tried...
I am working on rebuilding a site in which they do not want their users to have to worry about ...
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SEO Lite: “extra” tags in EE 4
I am trying to get the {extra:...} tags to work (per the docs) in EE4 but am having no luck.
In my config.php file, I have the following:
$config['seolite_tab_title'] = 'SEO';
// Pull additional ...
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Can jquery-based sorting or loading, like isotope or infinite scroll have a negative effect on for SEO?
I'm curious what the community thinking is on this point. While infinite scrolling may present a user-friendly tool for listing a large number of entries, isn't there potentially a downside from an ...
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Robots.txt is not found when placed in web root: where to place?
What would be the correct place to put my robots.txt file? In wordpress i was used to putting this in the web root but in EE this doesnt seem to work, when opened in webbrowser i get 404 error.
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Solspace Calendar and SEO Lite
I'm using both Solspace Calendar and SEO Lite. Was wondering how to get the {event_title} from Calendar to display in the browser title when the event detail page is viewed.
Any recommendations? ...
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Using hyphens opposed to underscores with in page URLs
Someone told me the other day that Google likes url's with hyphens (e.g. a-page-title) opposed to url's with underscores (e.g. a_page_title).
Assuming this is correct is there a way to make ...
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Word separator for file names
The default file name separator for Expression Engine is an underscore. And this cannot be changed. But the url title word separator is.
For seo purposes, our client asked if it is possible to use ...
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General SEO page question - dynamic vs static?
What's better from a SEO perspective?
I normally generate a lot of my page dynamically using only one template and segments. But for SEO purposes is it better (?) to create a static template for each ...
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'pubsubhubbub' support for EE?
A little background, we have a theory that content scrappers are using our feeds to scape and post our site content and it might be negatively effecting or search results. This topic was mentioned by ...
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SEO meta - Multiple fallback options?
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,...
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At what point does the 404 template send it's response code?
I've recently launched a new site for a client. Their old site contained a lot of product pages with url parameters such as id=0123.
To try and alleviate people following dead links from Google etc ...
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Is there an ExpressionEngine SEO optimization plugin like Yoast?
Is there an ExpressionEngine SEO optimization plugin like Yoast for WordPress? I need to be able to optimize blog posts for search.
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Channel categories and metadata
For the entries I'm using SEO Lite module but what can I do for categories landing pages metadata except default from SEO Lite module? Conditionals are not the best choice for because I have about 120 ...
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NSM Better meta EE upgrade problems
I recently upgraded to EE2.11.1 and everything went well apart from nsm better meta , i upgraded to the latest version of better meta 1.1.9 but i got lots of php errors so i had to remove the better ...
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How do I add a no follow meta tag to expression engine CMS templates?
The SEO agency in charge of my client's website has unearthed a significant duplication issue due to which the business may get penalized.
We have setup the expressionengine cms at secretcmsurl....
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Adding Page Titles and Meta Info to Home Page and Non Channal Entry Pages
What is the best way to add custom page titles and meta info to non entry pages like the home page or a landing page for a portfolio? I want to give users the ability to edit the page title and meta ...
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Is this a good use for the redirect tag?
How does Google view the redirect tag, e.g:
{if segment_4 == ""}
{exp:channel:entries limit="1" entry_id="{segment_3}" disable="categories|category_fields|custom_fields|member_data|...
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HTML Template for Page load time
I'm customizing a HTML template, any suggestions on plugins for good page load time?
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Check for channel entry seo data or use template code instead of defaults
I am using stash on a client site and was pushing over data from the entry itself for SEO meta, but want to provide the user the ability to customize it with the SEO Lite tab. Is there a way I can ...
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Is it necessary to hide the system folder from search robots?
Does this make any sense in a robots.txt?
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /your_system_folder
I'm guessing since the robots.txt file can be read it makes it even more dangerous to expose the system folder's ...
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Best SEO Plugin Recommendation
I need an SEO plugin that is similar to SEO lite, https://devot-ee.com/add-ons/seolite. Basically something that is simple, with global settings, and entry overrides. I like this plugin, but its main ...
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How do I connect my Expression Engine Site to Google Search Console?
I'm not very familiar with Expression Engine. I normally use Weebly, Wordpress, Wix, etc. I'm having a hard time connecting my site to my search console. Not sure where to put HTML tag or which ...
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Further extending the SEO Lite through the advanced config options
I almost have what I am after working completely thanks to the answer from @bjørn-børresen on this previous question.
Now I have the description and images working the way I need, but I cannot get ...
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Unwanted dynamic URLs appearing
I've got a client who is reporting that unwanted dynamic URLs for static pages are appearing in Google Webmaster Tools. This means that content is being duplicated as far as Google in concerned. How ...
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url_title and SEO using MX Title Control CE
Hello I am thinking about the url structure of a photo gallery website and could use a little advice on the subject.
For each entry in expression engine we would have a url_title like the following:
...
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Customizable, canonical URL for Solspace Tag entries
I'm using Solspace Tag to display a bunch of entries by particular tag. What I need to do is to set a Canonical URL for this list of entries. The Canonical URL might be to a completely different page.
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Question - Wordpress Better SEO integratedd than EE?
There exist a local webdesign company that they say, that with wordpress ,every site they build with it , or passed from something else to wordpress, it worked much better as the traffic income was ...
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How to disable expression engine URL [closed]
want to disable the SEO URL structure of Expression engine, i don't understand how to do that
