Meta information
This page gives an overview where you can edit search engines relevant content and meta information in the AEM.
This page is intended for SEO Manager. If you want to learn more about SEO visit the Google documentation.
Search Engine Optimization
Title Tag
You can edit the Title Tag at Property / Basic / Page Title
Description
You can edit the Title Tag at Property / Basic / Description
Page URL optimization
URLs are formed by default with the "name" in the AEM. This must follow defined rules (English, no spaces and special characters). In addition, the AEM offers the possibility to customize the URL for the website or to translate it into the relevant language.
You can edit the URL at Property / Advanced / Alias
hreflang attribute
List of ISO Codes to use for hreflang="X" tag see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
Link syntax for alternate version in different language:
- <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="https://ebmpapst.com/de/de/same-content" />
- <link rel="alternate" - indicates that there is an alternative language with the pages content available
- hreflang="de" - indicates the language of that page
- href="X" - shows the crawler the location of the german page
Target state 1:
hreflang must be be directional
Means: The tags should be from all versions of a copy to all versions of a copy.
Target state 2:
Self reference each page.ex.: German page should reference not only all other version, but also itself as hreflang.
Target state 3:
"X-default" value should be editable/set.x-default indicates the default page that should be taken, if the correct language is not available.
Image Alternative Tag
You can edit the Title Tag at the Image component Configure / Metadata / Alternative text
If the Description field of the Asset itself is maintained, this entry is used for the Image Alt attribute initial. The Alternative Text field in the Image component must first be checked out to edit the description.
Hide in search engines – robots=”noindex” meta tag
With “Hide in search engines” a search engine robot is informed that the visited page should not be included in the index.
Please activate the checkbox if you want to tell search engines not to display the page in search results. You can find it in the last tab “SEO-Config” in the page properties:
Once activated, a meta tag "noindex" is incorporated in the source text of the page and added to the other meta information. The tag looks like this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
Avoid duplicate content with the canonical tag
The canonical tag is used to correctly mark websites with duplicate content. With the canonical tag you link one or more copies of a page to the original.
You can link a copy in the last tab “SEO-Config” in the page properties to the original:
This original page is also referred to as the "canonical" page.
Before using the canonical tag, please check:
- The content of the pages should actually be identical or largely the same.
- The linked page and the url with canonical tag must not have a “noindex”, “ nofollow ” or “disallow” meta tag.
Explore Google Search documentation to improve your site's SEO
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