README

Overview

This is the core metadata module for the graphiques-digitale/silverstripe-seo-* module collection.

It enables enhanced title features, character set selection, canonical URLs and an enhanced fall-back description using $Content.FirstParagraph().

Title inspired by: http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag

It is intended to be used with it's siblings:

These are all optional and fragmented from the alpha version Graphiques-Digitale/SSSEO, which is now redundant.

The whole module collection is based largely on 18 Meta Tags Every Webpage Should Have in 2013.

Also, a good overview: 5 tips for SEO with Silverstripe 3.

Installation

Composer

composer require graphiques-digitale/silverstripe-seo-metadata
rebuild using /dev/build/?flush

From ZIP

Place the extracted folder silverstripe-seo-metadata-{version} into silverstripe-seo-metadata in the SilverStripe webroot
rebuild using /dev/build/?flush

CMS Usage

See /silverstripe-seo-metadata/_config/app.yml for configuration.

Metadata is changed globally via /admin/settings/ under the Metadata tab.

And also locally, per page, under their Metadata tab.

Template Usage

Depending on your configuration, the general idea is to replace all header content relating to metadata with $Metadata() just below the opening <head> tag and <% base_tag %> include, e.g.:

<head>
    <% base_tag %>
    $Metadata()
    <!-- further includes ~ viewport, etc. -->
</head>

This will output something along the lines of:

<head>
    <base href="http://dev.seo.silverstripe.org/"><!--[if lte IE 6]></base><![endif]-->

    <!-- SEO -->
    <!-- Metadata -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <link rel="canonical" href="http://dev.seo.silverstripe.org/" />
    <title>Your Site Name | Home - your tagline here</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Welcome to SilverStripe! This is the default home page. You can edit this page by opening the CMS. You can now access the developer documentation, or begin the tutorials." />
    <!-- END SEO -->

    <!-- further includes ~ viewport, etc. -->
</head>

Advanced Usage

Please check the documentation folder for how to extend classes and more.

Issue Tracker

Issues are tracked on GitHub @ Issue Tracker

Development and Contribution

Please get in touch @ hello@graphiquesdigitale.net if you have any extertise in any of these SEO module's areas and would like to help ~ they're a lot to maintain, they should be improved continually as HTML evolves and I'm sure they can generally be improved upon by field experts.