= Plone SEOptimizer (quintagroup.seoptimizer)  =
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Quintagroup Search Engine Optimization Tool enhances Search Engines visibility of Plone sites.

== Links ==

 * Home page - http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/qSEOptimizer
 * Repository - http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.seoptimizer
 * Releases - http://plone.org/products/plone-seo/releases
 * Build status - https://travis-ci.org/quintagroup/quintagroup.seoptimizer [[Image(https://travis-ci.org/quintagroup/quintagroup.seoptimizer.png?branch=master]]
 * Watch [http://quintagroup.com/cms/screencasts/plone-seo Plone SEO Screencast] to learn how to install and set up Plone SEO on your buildout-based Plone instance for Plone 3.2 or above. 

== Features == 

SEOptimizer products allows per document editing of:
 * HTML Title tag
 * META description tag
 * META keywords tag
 * HTML comment into page header
 * META robots tag
 * META Disposition tag
 * Canonical URL


== [wiki:qSEOptimizer/install Installation] ==  

quintagroup.seoptimizer can be installed on both traditional and buildout-based instances. See [wiki:qSEOptimizer/install Installation instructions here].

 * For Plone 4 versions - use Plone SEO 4.0 release and up http://plone.org/products/plone-seo/releases/4.0. In your buildout.cfg file's egg section set product version:

 {{{
   [buildout]
   ....
   eggs =
        ...
        quintagroup.seoptimizer >=4.0

 }}}

 * For Plone 3 versions - use the latest Plone SEO 3.x release http://plone.org/products/plone-seo/releases/3.0.5. In your buildout.cfg file's egg section set product version:
 
 {{{
   [buildout]
   ....
   eggs =
        ...
        quintagroup.seoptimizer >3.0,<4.0

 }}}

 * For Plone 2.x versions - use Plone SEO 1.7.1  release http://plone.org/products/plone-seo/releases/1.7.1

== [wiki:qSEOptimizer/config Configuration] ==  

After SEOptimizer installation you will see new item among Add-on Products Configuration - '''Search Engine Optimizer'''
 
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Use this configuration area to select what content types will be qSEOptimizer-enabled, to control if DC metatags will be exposed in the header of content pages, еtc. 
Read more about [wiki:qSEOptimizer/config SEO Configuration].

== Usage ==

 * Go to a document for which you want to define SEO values
 * Switch to '''SEO Properties''' tab

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 * Look through [wiki:qSEOptimizer/properties item properties] you want to change.
 * Check '''Override''' boxes for features you want to override and type-in your new SEO values.
 * Save

Do this for all documents that need enhanced SEO properties.

== [wiki:qSEOptimizer/properties#a7.CanonicalURL Canonical URL] ==

Starting from version 2.0.4 SEOptimizer has new feature added to the list of SEO Properties - '''[wiki:qSEOptimizer/properties#a7.CanonicalURL Canonical URL]'''. 

Canonical URL for search engine marketing purposes is the URL you want people to see. Depending on how your web site was programmed or how your tracking URLs are setup for marketing campaign, there may be more than one URL for a particular web page.