Users Manual

With this extension editors can easily set some advanced properties for SEO in the page settings. With the Google search result preview the editor can see the effects of some properties directly.

Without this extension it is a problem that the speaking URL changes also, when the editor changes a page title. The page is not available with the old URL anymore. So now when the user creates a new page, the RealURL path segment will be set automatically.

We also change the max characters settings in some fields so that they are not too long for search results. Furthermore the new configurations are good explained. You can see the explanation as usual by hovering the label.

Page Properties

Property Label Tab Type
tx_csseo_title Browser title SEO string
tx_csseo_title_only Title only SEO boolean
tx_csseo_keyword Focus Keyword SEO string
tx_csseo_canonical Canonical URL SEO string
tx_csseo_no_index No Index SEO boolean
tx_csseo_no_follow No Follow SEO boolean
tx_csseo_og_title Facebook Title Social Media string
tx_csseo_og_description Facebook Description Social Media text
tx_csseo_og_image Facebook Image Social Media file
tx_csseo_tw_title Twitter Title Social Media string
tx_csseo_tw_description Twitter Description Social Media text
tx_csseo_tw_image Twitter Image Social Media file
tx_csseo_tw_creator Twitter Creator Social Media string
tx_csseo_tw_site Twitter Site Social Media string

Property details

Browser title

Property

tx_csseo_title

Data type

string

Description

This title will be shown in the browser tab and in the search engines. Place some keywords here, but not only separated by commas. The user should be animated to click.

Title only

Property

tx_csseo_title_only

Data type

boolean

Description

Show the browser title without the site title in case the space isn’t enough.

Focus Keyword

Property

tx_csseo_keyword

Data type

string

Description

Specify a word or phrase. In the SEO evaluation will be proofed wether this Focus Keyword is set in the browser title, the meta description and in the page content. You can specify multiple, comma-separated alternatives, e.g. for plural or stop words.

Canonical URL

Property

tx_csseo_canonical

Data type

string

Description

Provides from duplicate content. If another page shows mainly the same content, type here the link to this page, if it should be rather indexed then the current.

No index

Property

tx_csseo_no_index

Data type

boolean

Description

If checked, this page will not be visible in search engines. The page will also be excluded from the sitemap.xml.

No Follow

Property

tx_csseo_no_follow

Data type

boolean

Description

If checked, all links on the web page will not be checked from search engines. Thus the links have no influence on a page rank.

Facebook Title

Property

tx_csseo_og_title

Data type

string

Description

This title will be shown, if the user shares this page on facebook, LinkedIn etc.

Facebook Description

Property

tx_csseo_og_description

Data type

text

Description

This description will be shown, if the user shares this page on facebook, LinkedIn etc.

Facebook Image

Property

tx_csseo_og_image

Data type

file

Description

This image will be shown, if the user shares this page on facebook, LinkedIn etc. It will be scaled to 1200 x 628 pixels.

Twitter Title

Property

tx_csseo_tw_title

Data type

string

Description

This title will be shown, if the user shares this page on twitter. Fallback is the open graph title.

Twitter Description

Property

tx_csseo_tw_description

Data type

text

Description

This description will be shown, if the user shares this page on twitter. Fallback is the open graph description.

Twitter Image

Property

tx_csseo_tw_image

Data type

file

Description

This image will be shown, if the user shares this page on twitter. Fallback is the open graph image. It will be scaled to 1024 x 512 pixels.

Twitter Creator

Property

tx_csseo_tw_creator

Data type

string

Description

Enter a twitter username without the @ sign. If the user shares the page on twitter, this account will be shown as creator.

Twitter Site

Property

tx_csseo_tw_site

Data type

string

Description

Enter a twitter username without the @ sign. If the user shares the page on twitter, this account will be used in the card footer. The account should belong to your website.

FAQ

Do I have to insert open graph and twitter cards properties always? The title, description and an image should be available on every page. The title is default given by the page title. You can set the description in the SEO tab. A default image for sharing can be set by the open graph image field in the Social Media tab.

Why there are no extra fields for the sitemap.xml configuration? The more an editor can configure, the more confused he is. Therefore we decide to use the no index field to exclude a page / record from the sitemap, too. The priority and the change frequency were usually ignored by editors and are also not very important for Google etc.