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Is there any kind of SEO plugin like wordpress has?

Things like the same meta data for every blog post, the mainpage site title being added to the end of every post title don't really help with SERPS.

I know there is a plugin to specify the meta data and unique title for each blog post but I have literally dozens of blogs and thousands of posts, so it's not really practical.

Is there a plugin or something I could change in the files to

a) Remove the main blog title being added to every post title
b) Remove meta data for each blog post, but leave it for the main page

Thanks for any sugggestions

I guess that's a no then!

I think I'll remove my meta description and meta tags to avoid duplicate content issues.

Maccsta wrote:I guess that's a no then!

I guess you're impatient, young padawan!

There currently is no "SEO" plugin, s9y though has some plugins that offer similar functionalities. Like the html metatag plugin, the tagging plugin, sitemap plugin - and a lot is possible through template customization. Personally, I prefer using dedicated plugins for specific reasons, so that everyone can choose which portions he likes/needs, and independent plugins are actually easier to maintain.

Having said that, I do see the need for some improvements here. I am personally not very "invested" in SEO, so I would need precise things/ideas/code to implement them into the matching plugins.

a) Remove the main blog title being added to every post title

You can do that by editing your index.tpl template file, and simply change the variable of the <title> tag to match whatever you want. You could do something like:
$head_title is the title that is automatically created by s9y's core mechanics, but you can always bypass that with any custom logic you want.
For that, you should actually simply remove the metatags plugin for distinct blog entries, and put your meta-tags into the index.tpl template (or use a HTML Page nugget plugin to place content there).

I don't use the metatag plugin myself, but I belief this one also already has a setup option to specify default meta content for non-entry detail pages?

Regards,
Garvin

Sorry Gavin I didn’t mean to come across as impatient! Thanks very much for this info.
So if I need to add Categories and static pages what is the code?

Is it also possible to change the title to every page i.e archives/P2.html etc (probably won't do this, although I have blogs with 24 pages showing the same title for every page)?

I may just delete the meta data because I have so many pages, posts etc. I was using the serendipity_event_head_nugget to add the meta data adds it universally across the blog for everything.

Thanks again!

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b) Remove meta data for each blog post, but leave it for the main page

For that, you should actually simply remove the metatags plugin for distinct blog entries, and put your meta-tags into the index.tpl template (or use a HTML Page nugget plugin to place content there).

I don't use the metatag plugin myself, but I belief this one also already has a setup option to specify default meta content for non-entry detail pages?

I don't use the metatag plugin either. Adding the metatags to the index.tpl is the same as adding them to the serendipity_event_head_nugget - the meta tags and descriptions are added universally across the whole site which is bad from an SEO viewpoint.

Maybe this might help:
http://www.optional-necessity.com/archi ... tails.html

and this for static pages:
http://www.optional-necessity.com/archi ... pages.html

Don Chambers wrote:Maybe this might help:
http://www.optional-necessity.com/archi ... tails.html

and this for static pages:
http://www.optional-necessity.com/archi ... pages.html

Thanks Don that’s a great plug-in, I’ve tested it on a test blog, but there are still elements of site wide use of the default meta data such as in categories.

Meta description tags are not really a significant factor in ranking but they can be used in duplicate content calculations, so that’s really why I wanted to remove any repeat descriptions across every page.

I’m just going to remove them all!

Here is another discussion that may interest you: http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=11520