[How To] Meta Description for SEO

[Heffalump]

Hello,

I am new with showcase and after installing and testing I was very excited about the awesome functionality.
But i wonder how it is possible to create a meta description tag for SEO?

Thanks

Michael

 

[Bob]

Are you refering to showcase home or each individual showcase? You can edit the templates and add your own META Description (default uses the board description)

 

[Heffalump]

I am referring to each individual Artikel in Showcase.

Showcase home uses the default meta from xf-site.
Showcase category uses the description, that the category describes.
But the individual articles in the category do not have a meta description.

It would be fine, if the articles used the meta-desription like xenforo threads. Just the first 20 words or so...

 

[Heffalump]

Ok, its not so difficult and I made the changes for me, and now for others who are interestet.

Search in template nflj_showcase_index

<xen:title>{xen:phrase nflj_showcase}{xen:helper pagenumber, $page}</xen:title>
<xen:h1>{xen:phrase nflj_showcase}</xen:h1>

Replace with:

<xen:title>Here you can write whatever you want{xen:helper pagenumber, $page}</xen:title> <xen:h1>Here you can write whatever you want</xen:h1>

Search in template nflj_showcase_index

<meta name="description" content="{$xenOptions.boardDescription}" />

Ersetze mit:

<meta name="description" content="Here you can write whatever you want" />

Now you have an unique description and title for the showcase index page.

Now we had to correct the meta title of every article in showcase . I wish to have additional the category in the title.

Search in template nflj_showcase_item

<xen:title>{$item.item_name}{xen:helper pagenumber, $page}</xen:title>

Replace with:

<xen:title>{$item.item_name} - {$category.category_name} {xen:helper pagenumber, $page}</xen:title>

And now the meta-description in the same template

Search:

<xen:require css="nflj_showcase_item.css" />

And add after this:

<xen:container var="$head.description"> <meta name="description" content="{$item.item_name} - {xen:helper snippet, $item.description, 150}" /></xen:container>

Now the meta-description is generated from the articlename and the first 150 letters of the article.

Last but not least the headline did not have an H1-Tag.

Search in template nflj_showcase_item

{xen:helper showcasePrefix, $item}{$item.item_name}

Replace with:

{xen:helper showcasePrefix, $item}<xen:h1>{$item.item_name}</xen:h1>

Now its good for me.