exoboosters/vanillaseo

Vanilla Forums plugin to better handle Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Vanilla SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Latest Version: 0.3 (May.13.2015)

• Take back control of your Vanilla's SEO (Search Engine Optimization) with VanillaSEO.
• Edit page titles in order to provide your visitors better information about what is being displayed.
• Give your RSS Feeds life with relevant descriptions and titles.
• No more generic and plain page title's on your Vanilla Forum.
• Add keywords to your page titles to get better results from Search Engines.
• Guided administration interface to help you get setup within minutes.
• Support for "Tagging" and will add to meta keywords automatically. (Needs to have "Tagging" installed and enabled.)
• Meta description automatically generated from category's description.

Custom Page Titles on:

• Category Listings
• Discussion Listings
• Discussion Threads
• Tagged Discussion Pages
• Activity Pages
• Search Results Pages

Current Feature Requests

• Add meta keywords based on category.
• Add meta descriptions based on category.
• Add support for page number in titles. (Add %page% to certain titles)

Installation

1. Simply drop the VanillaSEO directory into your vanilla forum's plugin directory and enable in dashboard.

2. Navigate to built in administration interface which can be found under Settings -> Search Engine Optimization.

You can edit these configurable items from the backend instead of "editing in the php file" like most other traditional vanilla plugins.

Get Support and Make Contributions

• Fork a copy and make contributinos: https://github.com/JamieChung/VanillaSEO
• Get support on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamiechung

ChangeLog

0.3 (May.13.2015)

• Added support for setting the page title on tagged discussion pages.
• Fixed bug with older version of Vanilla where Tagging plugin was not properly detected.

0.2 (July.20.2011)

• New initial public release.
• Added help stickies in SEO dashboard so users can get assistance.
• Added support for search results pages.

0.1 (June.14.2011)

• Initial Public Release
• Default titles provided for multiple types of pages (discussions, category, home discussion, activity).
• Administration interface to enable/disable plugin's use.
• Users know which tags to use in the appropriate field and their meanings.
• Has support if Vanilla forum has "Tagging" installed. Discussion's tags will be placed in meta keywords.

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Copyright © 2011

Jamie Chung

[email protected]

http://www.jamiechung.me