SEO improvements for flexicontent

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12 years 5 months ago #20984 by loicberder
Hello,

I have some suggestions for the SEO improvement of flexicontent. Don't know if it's hard to code and i am sorry not to be able to participate...
  • <H1> for category page = category title ; for item page = item title
  • meta description : for category page = category description ; for item page = 200 first letters of the item core description field
  • meta keywords : for category page = category name + parent category name if exist ; for items page = items title + category name + content of item tag field

Has someone have SEO experience and can validate or improve my suggestions ??

hope that can be done and will help all of us
Loïc

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12 years 4 months ago #21723 by iamrobert

<H1> for category page = category title ; for item page = item title


You can do this in the template - edit category_category.php of your template:

change h2 to h1 (line 23)
Code:
<?php if ($this->params->get('show_cat_title', 1)) : ?> <h2 class="flexicontent cat<?php echo $this->category->id; ?>"> <?php echo $this->escape($this->category->title); ?> </h2> <?php endif; ?>

item.php of your item template (line 59): change h2 to h1:
Code:
<!-- BOF item title --> <?php if ($this->params->get('show_title', 1)) : ?> <h2 class="contentheading<?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')); ?>"><span class='fc_item_title'> <?php if ( mb_strlen($this->item->title, 'utf-8') > $this->params->get('title_cut_text',200) ) : echo mb_substr ($this->item->title, 0, $this->params->get('title_cut_text',200), 'utf-8') . ' ...'; else : echo $this->item->title; endif; ?> </span></h2> <?php endif; ?> <!-- EOF item title -->

meta description : for category page = category description ; for item page = 200 first letters of the item core description field


The default Joomla doesn't let you set categories.
So - I would suggest you use this free plugin:

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-ma.../seo-a-metadata/9830

It lets you set Metadata for each of your menu items including categories.

I don't really agree with automatic text - as the maximum characters for SEO in google is 150 - yahoo Chinese is 120. So - 200 would result in ....

Also, writing your own Metadescription is more powerful as you can target your branding message directly to consumers. If you want something like this - use ACESEF - which just writes a bunch of random gibberish for its words which is pointless IMHO.

meta keywords

Google doesn't use keywords in its search results.
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009...ywords-meta-tag.html

So - I think meta keywords are not worth the time or effort.

I have used ACESEF with Flexicontent - but find it super difficult to implement and doesn't work the way I want it to.

Regards,

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