SEO
The Forum ☛ Components ☛ SEO administration panel is the place for configuring and managing the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features.
Page Title (SEO)
With these options, you can control the configuraton of the browser title on Simple:Press Forum pages. You can also control the use of meta description and keywords on forum pages.
If you would like the topic title (if on a topic page) included in the browser title, select the checkbox. If you would like the forum title (if on a forum page) included in the browser title, select the checkbox. In addition, please enter the separator text that you would like to use between the browser title components. If you do not select any of the topic or forum titles to be included, nothing will be added to the browser title.
Meta Tags Data
With these options, you can control the setting of custom meta tags for description and keywords on forum pages.
You can enter a custom meta description and those choose whether that description is used on all forum pages or just the group view forum page. In addition, you then can optionally have the forum description used on forum pages and topic pages or have topic titles used on topic pages.
You can enter a custom list of keywords (comma separated) to be used on forum pages. If tags are in use on a topic page, you can instead elect to to have the meta keywords be set to the topic tags.
Site Map Generation
Auto Build Sitemap
If you are using the Google XML Sitemap plugin by Arne Brachhold, you can have SPF add its forums and topics into the sitemap. You have three options for how to get the SPF data into the sitemap.
- Dont Auto Generate – Use this option if you are using an external cron job or other method (including manual) for triggering the Google XML Sitemap plugin to rebuild the sitemap.
- Generate on Every New Topic – Use this option if you SPF to force a sitemap rebuild on every new topic. This can be cpu intensive if you have a lot of WP posts and or SPF Topics.
- Generate Sitemap Daily – Use this option if you want SPF to trigger a sitemap rebuild once per day.
Meta Tags Setup
With these options, you can control the setting of custom meta tags for description and keywords on forum pages.
You can enter a custom meta description and those choose whether that description is used on all forum pages or just the group view forum page. In addition, you then can optionally have the forum description used on forum pages and topic pages or have topic titles used on topic pages.
You can enter a custom list of keywords (comma separated) to be used on forum pages. If tags are in use on a topic page, you can instead elect to to have the meta keywords be set to the topic tags.
