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peterlu's avatar
peterlu
Champion
8 years ago

Custom Page SEO

Hi Lithium,

 

We are creating a custom page (/t5/custom/page/page-id/xxx-support). We are able to change the page title by going into text editor and do this: page.xxx-support.title = SEO title

We also want to change the <meta content="xxxxxxx" name="description"/>. I don't know how to update the description field.

Any suggestions?

 

Peter

  • phani's avatar
    phani
    Advisor
    8 years ago

    Hi peterlu,

    In our community, we place Meta tags in Page header and updates the description (from Custom Text) with Free Marker.

    For Example in Page header.

    <#if page.name == "xxx-support">

     <meta content="xxxxxxx" name="${text.format("xxx-Description")}"/>.

    </#if>

     

    Hope this helps!

     

    Thanks,

    Phani

    • peterlu's avatar
      peterlu
      Champion
      8 years ago

      phani I know we can do freemarker to add <meta> tag in. But the problem is that Lithium is producing the <meta name="description"> already. If I use freemarker to create another <meta name="description">, then on the page html, it will have 2 <meta name="description">. This will cause SEO problems.

      • phani's avatar
        phani
        Advisor
        8 years ago

        Hi peterlu,

         

        I did not see Lithium default description tag for one of my custom page. So assumed the solution might work. 

        I am also trying to get solution for this. Will keep you update on this.

         

        Thanks,

        Phani

    • peterlu's avatar
      peterlu
      Champion
      8 years ago

      VarunGrazitti Fellsteruk  Thanks for your suggestions. But your solutions have been rejected by our customers.

      They just want to know how to modify the SEO description for a custom page.

      • VarunGrazitti's avatar
        VarunGrazitti
        Boss
        8 years ago
        Hi peterlu - Since the SEO is limited to the nodes which are available in the community structure, I am not certain if this is available for the custom pages yet. You might get a possible workaround from support.
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    Boss
    8 years ago

    peterlu - How about creating a custom boards page and then mapping it to a boards page in the community structure. That way, you get more control on the tags.

     

    I hope this helps.