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SEO Settings (Search Engine Optimization)

All of our themes come with a built-in SEO plugin. This allows for common SEO settings to be added to your site without the need to code of use a 3rd party plugin. These settings are great for adding information which may help search engine crawl your site and improve rankings in search engine results.

To use the SEO settings in the theme options panel please follow the steps below.

To enable to the built-in SEO plugin go to the SEO section of the theme and place a tick in the Enable SEO checkbox.

Activating this will automatically insert the SEO title‟s, descriptions and keywords input below site wide to the header area with the appropriate meta tags.

The homepage title will be added to your sites homepage and wrapped in <title> tags. This information may be used by search engines as the site title when ranking your website in search results. So it’s advisable to add a title that clearly describes your website.

This will only be used on the homepage and helps search engines learn exactly what your site is about. The title you place here will automatically replace the standard title for the homepage.

Add a short description that gives information about your website.

This will be added to the header section of your site within the description meta tags. It is really important to make sure the title is clear and accurately describes what your site is about as this will be shown in search engine results.

Add keywords that are relevant to your site and for which you want to rank.

This helps search engines learn exactly what keywords are most important to you so it can rank you appropriately. When adding keywords ensure these are comma separated.

E.g. keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, etc…

Add a tick to the meta Robot tags you want to activate. Currently the following tags can be activated:

  • noodp.
  • noydir.

To learn more about these tags and how they can influence your search engines rankings please refer this is useful Wikipedia article.

To have greater control over the SEO settings remember to use the in-page SEO options panel.

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