Dashboard widgets for Search engine optimization (SEO) in TYPO3
The following dashboard widgets are available to editors if your integrator installed the system extension typo3/cms-seo and if you have been granted the permissions to use them.
"Missing Meta Description" widget
To make it more convenient for TYPO3 editors to optimize their website for search engines, typo3/cms-seo offers a dashboard widget that shows pages without a meta description.
The description field is important for SEO purposes. This field is used to instruct search engines to use this text to show as a teaser of your page in the search result snippets. With this description, you can give the user a clear overview of the topic of this page:
Adding the "Missing Meta Description" widget to your personal Dashboard
If you have the access rights to the Dashboard module and are granted access to the "Missing Meta Description" widget you can add it yourself to your Dashboard:
Adding the widget "Pages missing Meta Description"
- Open the Dashboard module
- Click on the plus button to add a widget
- Go to category "SEO"
- Choose widget "Pages missing Meta Description"
Using the "Missing Meta Description" widget to improve SEO results
Therefore this widget lists pages without a description in their meta data:
Pages without description listed in the Dashboard
You can now click on the pencil icon to add a description to the page:
Add a description to the page