EVO Version: select or above
Seo4Evo package includes the best snippets and plugins to optimize SEO in Evolution websites, with a dedicated ManagerManager tab.
Seo4Evo Features:
- Generates META tags automatically
- Install XML Sistemap
- Include or exclude documents from xml sitemap
- Onpage Robots index/follow settings
- Canonical Url to avoid duplicated contents
- 301 Redirects to solve 404 errors in webmaster tools
- Custom Seo Title with words counter
- Meta Descrtiption with words counter
- Open Graph Protocol
- Google Author
Seo4Evo Package includes
Snippets:
Seo4Evo snippet
Generates META tags automatically
- meta charset
- base href
- title
- keywords
- description
- robots
- last modified
- copyright
- canonical
- og:site_name (facebook)
- og:type (facebook)
- og:url (facebook)
- og:image (facebook)
- fb:app_id (facebook)
- author (google+)
- publisher (google+)
Sitemap Snippet
- Output a machine readable site map for search engines and robots
http://modx.com/extras/package/sitemap
DynamicDescription
- Creates a dynamic description of the first $n words in $content
http://modx.com/extras/package/dynamicdescription
Plugins:
Virtual Alias
- Virtual Aliases is a plugin which, as the name implies, allows multiple aliases to be defined for a single MODx document
http://www.stanback.net/code/modx/virtual-aliases.html
Google Analytics
- Adds a Google Analytics tag to every HTML page of your website
http://modx.com/extras/package/googleanalytics
Chunks:
- Seo4Evo mm rules (sample code for ManagerManager plugin the Seo Tab)
Tvs
- Aliases (301 redirect urls for Virtual Alias)
- CanonicalUrl (setting for Seo4Evo)
- GoogleAuthor (setting for Seo4Evo)
- MetaDescription (setting for Seo4Evo)
- MetaKeywords (setting for Seo4Evo)
- CustomTitle (setting for Seo4Evo)
- RobotsFollow (setting for Seo4Evo)
- RobotsIndex (setting for Seo4Evo)
- sitemap_changefreq (setting for Sitemap Snippet)
- sitemap_exclude (setting for Sitemap Snippet)
- sitemap_priority (setting for Sitemap Snippet)
Install
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With **Package Manager or Store module
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copy the code from Seo4Evo mm rules in your default mm rules chunk
Sitemap snippet
Create a sitemap page
Create a new resource :
- title: sitemap
- URL alias: sitemap.xml
- Show in menu : no
- Published: yes
- Internet Media Type: text/xml
- Rich text: no
- Resource content:
[!SiteMap? &format=`sp` &excludeTemplates=`blank` &excludeTV=`sitemap_exclude` &priority=`sitemap_priority` &changefreq=`sitemap_changefreq` &excludeWeblinks=`true`]]
more infos at: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/SiteMap:_Google_sitemaps_in_MODx
Snippet Call
- Add Seo4Evo snippet call after the opening tag in your template
Basic call - only site metatags
[[Seo4Evo]]
With Facebook Open Graph metatags
[[Seo4Evo? &OpenGraph=`1` &OGfbappId=`123456789123456789` &OGimageTv=`my-thumbnail` &OGtype=`article`]]
With Facebook Open Graph e Google plus metatags
[[Seo4Evo? &OpenGraph=`1` &OGfbappId=`123456789123456789` &OGimageTv=`my-thumbnail` &OGtype=`article` &GooglePlus=`1` &linkPub=`https://plus.google.com/123456789123456789`]]
Snippet Call Parameters:
- &preTitle - pre Title
- &postTitle - pre Title
- &KeywordsTv - custom MetaKeywords tv (ie: documentTags)
- &all_page_keywords - chunk or comma separated list of Keywords displayed on all pages
- &MetaDescriptionTv - custom description tv - Example:
&MetaDescriptionTv=`introtext`
Example:
[[Seo4Evo? &preTitle=`[(site_name)] |` &postTitle=`> [(site_name)]`]]
Result:
<title>Test Site | My custom SEO Title > Test Site</title>
Facebook Open Graph Protocol Parameters
- OpenGraph - 1= enable OG metatags
- OGfbappId - your facebook app id
- OGimageTv - image tv for your shared post on facebook default tv: thumbnail
- OGtype - default: website (more infos: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph)
Google Plus Parameters
- GooglePlus - 1= enable G+ metatags
- linkPub - the "brand" google publisher page
On page settings (tvs)
Seo4Evo Snippet tvs:
- CustomTitle - Seo Custom Title for metatag title - Default value is [pagetitle]
- Meta Keywords - Meta Keywords - comma separated keywords
- CanonicalUrl - Custom CanonicalUrl - If Empty full alias for pages or domain url for homepage - works like using if snippet :
<link rel="canonical" href="[[if? &is=`146:is:1` &then=`" />[(site_url)]` &else=`[(site_url)][~`]][*id*]~] - Author - Google plus author page URL (if empty does not display the tag)
- Meta Description - If Empty get the first 25 words from content (via $modx->runSnippet DynamicDescription Snippet)
- Robots Index this Page - Include or exclude the page in Search Engines
- Robots - Following Links - Follow or noFollow links on the page
Virtual Alias Plugin tvs:
- 301 Redirects - Add old url - New aliases should each be added on a separate line. Omit any leading or trailing slashes as well as the default suffix (usaully .html)
SiteMap Snippet tvs:
- Sitemap exclude - Include or exclude the page in Google SiteMap
- Sitemap update frequency - How often the content will be changed
- Sitemap Priority - Importance of the page