SEO Umbraco Extension
Umbraco extension created by Marcel Digital's web development team allows the quick creation of SEO friendly website. The package includes a partial document type to add SEO elements to existing or new documents. It also comes with some child actions in order to render the SEO elements to site layout.
Please visit the project site on Umbraco here to report any issues or request enhancements using the forum.
All of the following properties are available in the SEO
document type located in the Partials
folder.
Add the SEO
document type as a composition to any document types which will add the SEO properties to the content.
Install
Install-Package MarcelDigital.UmbracoExtensions.SEO
Title
This property controls the output of the title for the content which will be rendered into the title tag. Title tags
are used by search engines and are important for social sharing. Normally, the title of the content is the
same as the name of the content in Umbraco, but sometimes this needs to be overridden. Use this property along
with the SeoTitle()
method on the Umbraco
helper to output the title tag body.
<title>@Umbraco.SeoTitle() | [Your Site Name]</title>
When there is no value in the Title
property, then the name of the content is used in it's place.
Meta Description
This property allows a description to be added to the content that provides a concise explanation of the contents.
Search engines will use this to display preview snippets for your content in search results. Use this property
along with the MetaDescriptionTag
method on the Umbraco
helper to render the meta description
to the layout.
<head>
...
@Umbraco.MetaDescriptionTag()
...
</head>
If there is no value in the Meta Description
property, then no meta tag is rendered to the page. Otherwise
the meta tag with the description entered is added to the page.
<meta name="description" content="[Your Description Here]">
To add a default meta description when there is none avaliable, pass the default text into the helper and it will be be used when the content has no value entered into the meta description property
<head>
...
@Umbraco.MetaDescriptionTag("[Default meta description]")
...
</head>
Canonical Url
This property allows overriding the canonical url for the content. A canonical tag gives credit to a
specific URL as the sole source of a piece of content or information. The property Canonical Override
allows you to specify a different canonical url for the content in place of the url generated by Umbraco.
Use this property along with the CanonicalTag
method on the Umbraco
helper to render
the canonical tag to the layout.
<head>
...
@Umbraco.CanonicalTag()
...
</head>
When there is no value for the Canonical Override
property, the default Umbraco generated url will
be used instead. The following tag will be rendered to the page.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://exmaple.com/path/to/contnet/" />
No Index / No Follow
These properties allow for setting the index and follow robots meta tag for your content. Setting content to "no index" will tell
the crawler to ignore the content from its indexing, while setting "no follow" will inform the crawler to not pass link equity
through any of the links in the content. Use these properties along with the RobotsTag
method on the Umbraco
helper to render
the robots meta tag to the layout.
<head>
...
@Umbraco.RobotsTag()
...
</head>
The following tag will be rendered to the page.
<meta name="robots" content="[no]index, [no]follow">
Hide from Xml Sitemap
This property is to be used in conjunction with creation of an XML sitemap for the Umbraco instance. If you do not already have a way to create an XML sitemap, see Marcel Digital's package for this here. Setting this property to true should tell the XML sitemap generator to omit this content from the sitemap.
Using our XML sitemap package, just add the following filter to the filter chain in the configuration file located at Config/xmlSitemap.config
.
This will remove any document types that have been flagged using the 'Hide from Xml Sitemap' property.
<umbracoXmlSitemap>
<filters>
...
<filter type="MarcelDigital.UmbracoExtensions.XmlSitemap.Filters.PropertiesFilter, MarcelDigital.UmbracoExtensions.XmlSitemap">
<properties>
<property alias="seoXmlSitemapHide" value="false" />
</properties>
</filter>
...
</filters>
</umbracoXmlSitemap>