ExpressionEngine 2 SEO Module

Posted On 07.12.2010

As part of our continuing strive for a super-efficient development processes, we’ve created a simple Search Engine Optimization module for ExpressionEngine 2!

While searching for how to properly implement SEO within ExpressionEngine, we found that current extensions were generally lacking, both in flexibility and in actual number. Our final solution? Build our own!

This plugin follows the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid!). We found that we needed a balance between flexibility/power and simplicity. For us, this plugin does just enough without a cumbersome implementation or code base.

This module allows you to:

  • Add title, keywords, and description for any entry via the SEO tab
  • Set a default title, description or keywords for entries (and lets you choose whether or not to use the defaults)
  • Prepend / Append text to all title tags (can be overridden with template tags)
  • Set Visibility of robots via the robots meta tag
  • Canonical meta tag to reduce duplicate content flags in search engines

For more information, check out the thread on ExpressionEngine developer forums:
http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/160112/

You can download the module directly from our github repository here:
http://github.com/dsurgeons/ExpressionEngine-SEO

If you like this module, please be sure to comment and share!

Comments

9
  1. John Henry Donovan says:
    July 13, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    Great Add-on. I believe the implementation for dynamic meta would be cleaner though if you were to work a url_title= parameter in there alongside the entry_id=. Easy to pull from a segment then

  2. John Macpherson says:
    October 2, 2010 at 8:42 am

    Appreciated the time you have taken to build this module. Thanks.

  3. Brandon says:
    November 1, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    Really cool module. I am however getting an error when trying to save the SEO module default options. Do you have any ideas, I am using the latest files from git.

    -Brandon

  4. al says:
    November 4, 2010 at 10:06 am

    hi there, looks like a great module. however want to ask you your thoughts o Leevi’s NSM better meta module. What was lacking in that module that gave you the impetus to create this one?
    thank you
    al

  5. Neo says:
    November 22, 2010 at 11:54 am

    Hi, is this MSM compatible? I’ve just installed it and I’m not getting any success. The SEO tab appears but no data is transferred to the live page.

  6. Jelle says:
    March 29, 2011 at 3:59 am

    Hey, i love your plugin but would it be able to add a second tab (example: seo_language2)?

    please let me know

  7. Mark says:
    March 31, 2011 at 5:55 am

    Hi I was trying to install your ad-on but no luck :(

    there is no expressionengine/third_party/seo on my version (1.6.8), so uploded that into system/modules.

    Unfortunatelly I am getting empty page when trying to activate the plugin :(

  8. mark says:
    March 31, 2011 at 6:04 am

    The error I am gettting:
    Fatal error: Class ‘Seo_CP’ not found in /home/sites/**********/public_html/system/cp/cp.modules.php on line 363

  9. karthi says:
    November 28, 2011 at 9:13 am

    i have added the code in my template header as per the guidelines but nothing showing up in front end…

    this is the code i added….
    {embed:seo_title}

    Is there anyother file i need to edit… Pls Help

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