{"id":539,"date":"2012-03-26T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:30:47","slug":"plone-seo-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/plone-seo-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Plone SEO enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a fondness for Plone, although many developers point to it's SEO unfriendliness as it's primary weakness. Plone does boast SEO friendly URLs, which used to be a strong advantage. But, SEO friendly URLs are pretty much "factory standard" on all CMS these days.<\/p>\n

The good news is, you can easily tweak many of Plone's templates to achieve an SEO boost.<\/p>\n

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  1. Make all document_actions rel="nofollow"<\/strong>. These include the "send to a friend", print, full screen, etc. options available on all pages. This presents duplicate content issues for search engines.\n

    \t\tModify the document_actions view or template to add a rel="nofollow" to anchor tags.<\/p>\n

    \t\tThis is just one example of where the rel="nofollow" attribute should be applied. Plone adds many anchor tags to page which can been seen as completely separate URLs to the search engines. Have a look at your HTML source and add those no follows where you see fit.
    \n\t\t <\/li>\n

  2. Add a title to the image_view_fullscreen template<\/a><\/strong>.
    \n\t\t <\/li>\n
  3. Add a RewriteRule to your .htaccess<\/strong>, conf.d, or other server configuration file, to redirect \/front-page to \/\n

    \t\tRewriteRule \/front-page \/ [R=301]<\/code>
    \n\t\t <\/li>\n

  4. Limit the length of the site's Title property<\/strong>. The site title will be appended to the end of every Title tag. The ideal Title tag is no longer than 70 characters.
    \n\t\t <\/li>\n
  5. Install the qSEOptimizer product<\/strong> to gain more control of the title and meta tags.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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