OmCore allows you to assign unique metadata to all pages of your website, including those generated dynamically by modules, such as blog pages. Good use of metadata can help to improve your search engine ranking. For more information on metadata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element
Meta data is managed on the 'Metadata' tab which is displayed when editing sites in the Sites module, editing pages, and when editing items in some modules.
Site metadata
Metadata can be assigned to a website within the Sites module (Website / Sites). By default, a site's metadata will be loaded onto every page of your website unless the page is primed with its own metadata.
Page metadata
Metadata can be assigned individually to pages when editing pages on the Site tree (Website / Site tree). If a page is not assigned metadata it will load its site's metadata.
Module metadata
Some modules, such as the Blog module, allow metadata to be assigned to their items. If an item is assigned metadata then this metadata will override the page's metadata when the item's details page is displayed. For example, if a blog article is being displayed then the blog articles metadata will be loaded. If an item is not assigned any metadata then its details page will adopt the page's, or site's, metadata.
The metadata options
The metadata tab contains the following options:
Use default metadata
- This option is not available in the 'Sites' module.
- With this option selected items will adopt their page's metadata, and pages will adopt their site's metadata, overriding the page's or item's metadata.
- This option is selected by default.
Meta title
- Populates the document title, displayed in the title bar of the browser.
Meta description
- Populates the page's meta description tag.
- For more information on meta descriptions see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element
Meta keywords
- Populates the page's meta keywords tag.
- For more information on meta keywords see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element
- Meta keywords should be entered as a comma delimited string. I.e. "one, two, three".
Canonical URLs
- Canonical URLs allow multiple URLs displaying the same content to have their statistical data consolidated to a single preferred URL.
- For more information see: Canonical URLs