A module for the Orchard CMS that helps site owners optimize their website for search engines and improve discoverability by enabling robust and granular control over SEO aspects. The module lets site owners control page titles, meta keywords and descriptions, robots.txt and sitemap.xml. Additionally, it allows 301/302 redirects to be configured for changed URLs.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a must. If your site is easily crawled and index by search engines such as Bing and Google, chances are your site looks better and ranks higher on their search results pages. Optimizing a site for search engines involves many things, such as providing fresh content, relevant URLS, keywords and descriptions, proper use of heading tags, providing a sitemap, and so on. In order to be able to do all that, webmasters need tools that let them control all of these aspects. That's where IDeliverable.Seo comes in - an Orchard module that lets site owners and content editors control every aspect related to SEO on a granular level.
The module comes featured with an alternate alias management editor, making it a breeze to keep your old URLS while creating new ones for your content. Old URLS will redirect the user using a 301 or 302 HTTP status code, which is configurable by the editor.
Both setting up as well as using the SEO tools could not be simpler. The module comes with a set of recipes that can be executed from the Modules section for quick setup using the most common configuration, such as attaching the SeoPart and optionally the SeoSiteMapPart to the Page content type and enabling the Sitemap.xml and Robots.txt features.
The various screens and content parts all provide easy-to-understand UI, making it a breeze to provide content and configuration relevant to search engines.
Control over the browser's Title bar, meta keywords and descriptions and meta robots are all configurable on a per content item basis by means of the SeoPart that you attach to your content types.
The module also comes with a sitemap.xml route that generates an XML structure automatically for you. However, the SeoSitemapPart allows for even more control over how each entry appears in the sitemap document by allowing control over aspects such as change frequency and priority.
Orchard is all about extensibility, and so are our Orchard modules. Developers can extend the functionality of the IDeliverable.Seo module with new Sitemap providers.
With title, we refer to the <title> tag in the <head> element of your webpage. Controlling this aspect is key when it comes to SEO. Where ordinarily this title would be generated based on the content title and the site name, IDeliverable.Seo provides you with full manual control over this aspect.
Similar to the <title> tag, <meta> tags are another important aspect to SEO. The module supports any meta tag you need, and has specialized support for the the keywords, description and robots meta tags.
IDeliverable.Seo provides a root sitemap.xml URL and generates its contents for xml dynamically based on your site's content and navigation structure, and lets you control the change frequency and priority on a per-content item basis. It even has support for automatically generating multiple sitemaps.
The IDeliverable.Seo module makes it easy to provide this file. Simply go to the Robots section under the Seo admin menu item and provide the contents. The module will automatically serve the contents at the www.yoursite.com/robots.txt URL.
The IDeliverable.Seo modules comes with a feature called Seo Routes, which provides a RoutesPart that you can attach to your content types. Doing so will enable the editor to provide multiple aliases to a content item and specifying a behavior to those aliases. For example, a 301 or 302 redirect. This will make changing URLs painless because web crawlers requesting the old URL will simply receive a 301 or 302 redirect and follow the updated URL. Easy.
Just as IDeliverable.Seo uses the extensibility of the Orchard CMS to integrate with Orchard in an organic and natural way, it also mirrors this philosophy and itself provides extensibility points, which you as a developer can utilize to extend the functionality of the module even further:
- Developers can create new sitemap providers by implementing the
ISitemapHandlerinterface or inheriting fromSitemapHandlerBase. A sitemap handler is a component provides a collection of sitemap entries to be included in the resulting sitemap.xml document. Out of the box, the module provides four providers:CustomEntrySitemapHandler,NavigationSitemapHandler,RoutableContentSitemapHandlerandTagSitemapHandler.
To install the module from Orchard Gallery:
- In the Orchard admin UI, navigate to Modules -> Gallery.
- Search for "IDeliverable.Seo".
- Click Install to install the module.
To install the module using the ZIP file:
- Download the module ZIP file.
- Unzip the contents into the
Modulesfolder of your Orchard installation (this creates anIDeliverable.Seosubfolder).
To integrate the module into your development workflow, unzip the contents into the Orchard.Web\Modules folder of your local repository and add it to source control (if any).
- Enable the feature Seo.
- Attach the Seo content part to the Page content type.
- Optionally, enable one or more of the optional features Seo Sitemap, Seo Sitemap for Tags and Seo Robots.
Alternatively, execute one of the following recipes: Robots, Seo Part, Sitemap or Sitemap for Tags. Each of these will enable the required features as well as provide some basic configuration, such as attaching the Seo content part to the Page content type in the case of the Seo Part recipe.
IDeliverable.Seo is compatibility-tested and supported on Orchard version 1.10.x. The module might also work on older or newer versions of Orchard but this is not guaranteed.
We make a commitment that the current release of our modules should always work with the current minor release of Orchard (e.g. 1.10) and across all subsequent revision releases (e.g. 1.10.1, 1.10.2 and so on). We strive to always conduct compatibility testing (and release an updated module if necessary) within two weeks of every new Orchard release.
The module provides the following features with their respective dependencies:
- Seo (
IDeliverable.Seo) depends onOrchard.Resources. - Seo Sitemap (
IDeliverable.Seo.Sitemap) depends onIDeliverable.SeoandOrchard.Autoroute. - Seo Sitemap for Tags (
IDeliverable.Seo.Sitemap.Tags) depends onIDeliverable.Seo.SitemapandOrchard.Tags. - Seo Robots (
IDeliverable.Seo.Robots) depends onIDeliverable.Seo.