User talk:Kirk

SEO Usage

The extension can be used via the {{#seo}} parser function. It accepts the following named parameters in any order.

• title

The title you want to appear in the html title tag

• title_mode

Set to append, prepend, or replace (default) to define how the title will be amended.

• title_separator

The separator in case titlemode was set to append or prepend; " - " (default)

• keywords

A comma separated list of keywords for the meta keywords tag

• description

A text description for the meta description tag

• robots

Controls the behavior of search engine crawling and indexing

• googlebot

Controls the behavior of the google crawler

• hreflang_xx-xx

Adds <link rel="alternate" href="url" hreflang="xx-xx"> elements

tags related to the Open Graph protocol

• type

The type of your object, e.g., "video.movie". Depending on the type you specify, other properties may also be required.

• image

An image URL which should represent your object within the graph.
The extension will automatically add the right image url, width and height if an image name is set as the parameter. Example image = Local_file_to_use.png.
Alternatively a full url to an image can be used, image_width and image_height will then have to be set manually.
If no parameter is set, the extension will use $wgLogo as a fallback or the local file set through $wgWikiSeoDefaultImage.

• image_width

The image width in px. (Automatically set if an image name is set in image)

• image_height

The image height in px. (Automatically set if an image name is set in image)

• image_alt

Alternative description for the image.

• locale

The locale these tags are marked up in. Of the format language_TERRITORY.

• site_name

If your object is part of a larger web site, the name which should be displayed for the overall site. e.g., "IMDb".

tags related to Open Graph type "article"

• author

Writers of the article.

• keywords

Translates into article:tag

• section

A high-level section name. E.g. Technology

• published_time

When the article was first published. ISO 8601 Format.

tags related to Twitter Cards (see OpenGraph Tags)

• twitter_site

If you did not set a global site name through $wgTwitterSiteHandle, you can set a site handle per page. If a global site handle is set this key will be ignored.

Examples

Adding static values

{{#seo:
|title=Your page title
|title_mode=append
|keywords=these,are,your,keywords
|description=Your meta description
|image=Uploaded_file.png
|image_alt=Wiki Logo
}}

Adding dynamic values

If you need to include variables or templates you should use the parser function to ensure they are properly parsed. This allows you to use Cargo or Semantic MediaWiki, with Page Forms, for data entry, or for programmatic creation of a page title from existing variables or content...

{{#seo:
 |title={{#if: {{{page_title|}}} | {{{page_title}}} | Welcome to WikiSEO}}
 |title_mode={{{title_mode|}}}
 |keywords={{{keywords|}}}
 |description={{{description|}}}
 |published_time={{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}
}}

Hreflang Attributes

{{#seo:
 |hreflang_de-de=https://example.de/page
 |hreflang_nl-nl=https://example.nl/page-nl
 |hreflang_en-us=https://website.com/
}}

Will generate the following `<link>` elements:

<link rel="alternate" href="https://example.de/page" hreflang="de-de">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://example.nl/page-nl" hreflang="nl-nl">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://website.com/" hreflang="en-us">

Open Graph Overview

--D (talk) 13:48, 23 July 2020 (MDT)

Robots links

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en

--D (talk) 13:48, 24 July 2020 (MDT)