#672 – Some starter questions...

Hi! It bought your Route 66 also. I've implemented it on two sites at this point. I like the functionality and it seems to work great. I was mostly looking for the canonical URL option, but the other features are also great. I have implemented the URL structure as well. I have not tried the FB articles thing. Maybe in the future. The SEO check is nice for website users that want to check some SEO stuff related to the article.

I do have some questions:

- Why would I use 'Add suffix to menu links'? Maybe just to do some SEO 'keyword stuffing'? Or would there be another benefit in using this feature?
- Why would I use 'Add trailing slash to menu links'? When there is a canonical URL added this would not cause any duplicate content issue right? So what is the benefit of this feature? Or is it just 'visual'?
- We have three option to display the SEO check on an article: Form (tab), Toolbar (action button) and 'Sidebar'. Is the last option only for J4? I tried it ion J3 bu did not see the SEO check anymore on the article.
- SEO score: This only checks the article text itself. Right? For example: We have a module with some internal links that is placed below the text of some articles. This text shows up on the frontend below the article in a module position. So on the frontend we have some internal links. But this is not seen by the SEO check. So this check is not giving the user a complete picture of the actual page the article is on? It would be nice it somehow this check could be performed on the total page this article is presented on. This would be the page that is indexed in total by search engines. Not just the article text. But I am not sure if that can be done technically.

Kind regards,
Jip

Hi Jip,

Regarding your questions:

The options "'Add suffix to menu links" and "Add trailing slash to menu links" were requested by a customer. He wanted to achieve the following URL structure:

1. URLs should end with a slash for "directory" pages (product categories for example).
2. URLs should have an extension (.html for example) for "leaf" pages (product pages for example).

Personally I think this kind of structure is has no SEO benefit nowadays. But the feature is there just in case.

In order to display the SEO widget in the sidebar you have to publish the administrator module named "Route 66 SEO" in the "submenu" position. I will add an info message when selecting this in the options.

If you want to check the whole page output you have to use the URL based analysis. Just navigate to "Components" -> "Route 66" -> "SEO Analysis" and enter the URL of the page you wish to analyze. The analysis will include the modules output and of course it can work with any extension or component. Note that this feature is only available in the PRO version.

Regards

Thanks for your info!