The SEO options module allows you to optimise the default Meta information to improve SEO for the Newsroom (Homepage) or any Page.
This article will explain how to customise Meta Information of the Newsroom or Page.
Table of contents
Accessing the SEO Options
In the Newsroom dropdown, go to Homepage or select a specific Page from Pages.
Select the Miscellaneous dropdown and SEO options.
Meta Information fields
In the SEO options screen update the Meta information fields:
Meta title - The title is an important part of the webpage for search engines to identify the content of a page. By default this is the name of the Account or the title of the article. It can be overwritten by entering a new title. By SEO best practices the maximum amount of characters is set to 60.
- Meta description - Search engines show the meta description in search results, especially when the searched-for phrase is contained in the description. Optimising the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO.
If you don't enter a meta description, search engines will take the first 160 characters of the body text of the latest crawled article and use that instead. - Canonical URL - A canonical URL makes sure that pages with duplicated content within the page will not get indexed by Google. With a canonical tag, the preferred page is provided to Google and other search engines. (This is not for redirect, only for indexing purposes).
Custom share URL - The custom share URL field is used to shorten a URL to share your article on social media. This will overwrite Presspage's own generated URL in the social sharing module.
Indexation - Add a 'noindex' or 'nofollow' meta tag to the Page, by checking the boxes.
Once ready, select Save. The meta information will now be updated on the Newsroom or Page.