SEO & SMO tips - restarone/violet_rails GitHub Wiki

You can find search engine and social media optimization related settings under /admin => Web Settings

SEO / Metadata

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  • HTML title: title on the browser tab for all pages
  • Blog title: title of the Blog in the UI
  • Blog HTML title: title on the browser tab for all pages related to the blog
  • Forum title: title of the Forum in the UI
  • Forum HTML title: title on the browser tab for all pages related to the forum
  • SEO description: the text that shows up on search engine previews (google search for example)
  • SEO keywords: a comma separated list of keywords that help search engines categorize your website

Graphics

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  • Company Logo: for best results use a logo without a background (.png file). This will be shown on sign in/sign up pages and the Admin UI. Click on the logo for a shortcut to your live website.
  • Favicon: use a .png or .jpeg that is 500px in height and 500px in width. This will be shown on the browser tab
  • open-graph image: use a .jpeg or .png that is 1200px in width and 628px in height

If everything is done right, you will have a rich preview like this when you share your website on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Whatsapp etc):

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Measuring SEO/SMO performance

To see how well optimized your site is for search engines and social media sharing, please use these tools: