Smart SEO

How To Use & Features

General Settings

This form lets the user fill the fields of the general settings and save them. Some of these fields are prefilled. This addon will provide the best results when the user will fill all the fields carefully.

General setting form (Default view)

There are multiple fields that can be changed as per your requirements. Details about those fields are given below::

1. Site name:

   This field automatically fills with installation but the user can edit it.

2. Logo:

   You can add a logo of your site. This field has “No Image” as a default. This logo image will be used in schema javascript code if the user does not set any image then no image will be set in schema code.

3. Environment:

   There are two option for this field Production Staging Production – select this radio button when the site is live with real traffic. Staging – select this field when this is a copy of a live site and used for staging purpose only.

4. Add trailing slash in Canonical URL:

   Set or unset trailing slash in canonical url.

5. Canonical URL:

   Canonical URL with pagination links? (i.e., P10, P20) :Set or unset Canonical URL with pagination links.

6. Smart SEO Template:

   This is a prefilled field with installation with default tag data. This tag data will be used when user render the SEO data with

   {exp:smart_seo:render entry_id="100"}

7. Default keywords:

   Users can set default keywords. These keywords will be used while users have not set any keywords at any channel entry, category and not mapped any entry or category.

8. Default description:

   Users can set a default description. This description will be used while users have not set any description at any channel entry, category and not mapped any entry or category.

9. Default Title Postfix:

   This is a prefilled field with installation with default tag data. user can set any title postfix from the given options.

10. Enable XML settings on/off:

    Enable the XML sitemaps that Smart SEO generates. A good XML sitemap acts as a roadmap of your website that leads Google to all your important pages.

11. Google Analytics Code:

    Only enter the ID, e.g.: UA-XXXXXX-XX, not the entire script code. read more

12. Google Tag Manager Code:

    Only enter the ID, e.g.: GTM-XXXXXX, not the entire script code. read more

Breadcrumbs Settings

This is the Settings of make Enable/Disable Breadcrumbs on site also you can make basic changes in Breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumbs settings form

Enable Breadcrumbs –

Option to enable/disable the Breadcrumb settings from the admin panel of the website.

The setting will allow users to select and chose the following parameters:

1. Separator between breadcrumbs.
2. Breadcrumb Start Tag.
3. Breadcrumb End Tag.
4. Item Start Tag.
5. Item End Tag.
6. Anchor text for the Homepage.
7. Prefix for the breadcrumb path.
8. Bold the last page – Last Page title makes bold font
9. The Breadcrumbs setting will come with a template code that the users can embed in their code and save the settings.

Webmaster Tools

This is the Settings of webmaster tools verification.

Webmaster tools form

Webmaster Tools verification:

The tool is used if the website content is not verified by different platforms. This feature will add a verification meta tag on the website home page. Follow the links to the different Webmaster Tools and look for instructions for the meta tag verification method to get the verification code.

Users can get the verification code for the following platforms:

1. Baidu verification code
2. Bing verification code
3. Google verification code
4. Yandex verification code

Outdated Content

This is the Settings of Outdated Content

Outdated Content verification:

Option to enable/disable the outdated content.

This option will enable the users to show the list of all entries which have not updated from the last six month.

Outdated Content

This is the Settings of Text link counter.

Text link counter form

Text link counter form

Option to enable/disable the counter of the internal text links present in the post. The counter will count the number of internal links in your post and the number of links to your post. The text link counter helps you improve your site structure.

This feature also requires a Page URL which is used for XML sitemap. According to this feature requirement we need to count links from the Content section hence we need to set the Content field for each Channel and Page URL for each entry, only then this feature will work and fetch the exact data.

Custom SEO

SEO is very vast. Sometimes users need to add many different fields other than default fields.

But Smart SEO takes care of it nicely, by adding more necessary SEO fields.

Custom SEO Fields

Multiple fields can be changed as per your requirements. Details about those fields are given below:

The added field from here will be displayed at all the pages where the user can set the SEO data.

1. Type:

   Users can select any of the given types.

2. Name:

   Name of the field.

3. Instructions:

   Fill in the instructions that appear in the publish forms.

4. Require field:

   Set field required or not by the toggle.

5. Key name:

   The key name for the SEO field.

   Ex.

   <meta property="og:type" content="website">

6. Value name:

   The value name for the SEO field.

   Ex.

   <meta property="og:type" content="website">

7. Maximum characters:

   Users can set the maximum character limit for the field data.

8. Text formatting:

   Users can set text formatting

9. Allow override?:

   Users can allow or disallow field data.

10. Text direction:

    Users can set text direction.

11. Allowed content:

    User restricts the data input type and selects any one option from given options.

12. Field tools:

    Users can allow showing the file chooser.

Social Connectivity

It allows the user to add his social media URLs of the Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter, MySpace, Youtube, Linkedin, and Google+. These links will be reflected in javascript schema code.

There are multiple social url input fields. Users can add any of the fields which will be inserted in the javascript schema code.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{

"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org",
"@type":"Organization",
"url":"your-site-url/",
"sameAs":
["your-facebook-page-url","you
"@id":"your-site-url/#organization
"name":"your-site-name",
"logo":""

} 
</script>

Robot.txt

This functionality allows the user to edit the robot.txt file. The user must ensure that the robot.txt file has the necessary read-write permission.

Revision list allows the user to check the previous data of the robot.txt which is modified and updated by the user. It helps to revert the data of the robot.txt file when required.

Robot.txt file edit form

Htaccess File Code

The option will enable the users to change the htaccess file from the admin panel.

Note: Anything you can do with a .htaccess file you can do with the server main configuration file better! So, Please take backup or sure about the code before adding in this option.

Htaccess File Code Edit Page:

Htaccess File Code:

Just like Robot.txt file saves htaccess files revision list, the setting will allow the users to view the revision list of htaccess files and be able to manage them. Users can also restore the old changes to htaccess file.

Redirects

The user can add the multiple URL redirects with the help of Create Redirects form. The user can create a temporary redirect using this feature and can bind it with a start date and end date. The user can also set redirect methods like 301-moved permanently, 302- found, 307 – temporary redirect, 410 – content deleted, and 451 – unavailable for a legal reason.

With the help of Redirects, the user can set internal or external links as well. The user can bind this redirect with start date and end date. If both these fields are left blank, then there will be no binding of any sort. If the user mentions only the start date, it will begin with the start date. But if only the end date is mentioned, it will start with the current date and end with the mentioned date.

Redirect setting form (Default view)

Multiple fields can be changed as per your requirements. Details about those fields are given below:

1. Original URL:

   Users must have to add the original URL.

2. Redirect URL:

   Users must have to add a redirect URL (internal or external).

3. Redirect Method:

   Users must choose any one of the given redirect methods.

4. Start Date:

   Users can insert start date, from this date redirect will be started.

5. End Date:

   Users can insert an end date, from this date redirect will be paused.

Category SEO

It is helpful to set SEO data for a specific category. If the user wants to set SEO data for a category, select that category from the smart SEO control panel and set the SEO data.

Category Group List

Category List

Category Group SEO edit form

Link Custom Fields

This feature allows the user to link the channel fields and category fields with SEO fields. It is very simple to use. The user has to select the appropriate field that he wants to link with the desired SEO field.

Smart SEO – Link Custom Fields (channel and category)

Step 1 : Select the channel or Category option to link ( Here I select channel ).