Flarum SEO

Gasjki

Hey JasperVriends ! Have you ever thought about adding the possibility to add custom keywords for each post, same as in Wordpress?

JasperVriends

Gasjki Hi! Not yet, but in the extending the SEO extension documentation, there is a function which potentially could be used to update the page keywords. See section Updating the page keywords

I think this would be a good idea, but I am also wondering if being able to set keywords per discussion is something that should be implemented into the SEO extension by default, or built in a separate extension hooking to the function setKeywords. Probably the SEO extension is the easiest, as we could also include functionalities as custom image and description.

I would love to hear some opinions 🙂

utasar Could you elaborate this a bit more? Also, don't forget to create an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/v17development/flarum-seo/issues

utasar

Thanks for effort @JasperVriends
Is that possible to add custom title and description content for TAGS(flarum categories)
I think it will be easier for us to focus on the SEO of our website.

Best

JAC

JasperVriends I love the sound of key words being picked up out of every discussion! 😃

JAC

I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you are trying to achieve? - https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19742-auto-post-link-title

DursunCan

Adding a voting system to the discuss? Discussions on search engines like google look better.

JasperVriends

Release 1.6.0 - Do-follow links, external links in new tab & more

In this version, new functionalities have been added! We've now implemented a 'do-follow' link management system. By default all Flarum links are set to nofollow. This will make sure people do not spam your forum with links to other domains in order to get more referrals.

This update changes that! You are now able to add some domains to the do-follow list! This will prevent adding the nofollow attributes to the links which contain that domain. For more information about how this works, check out this knowledge base article.

External links in new tab
Another new feature is the external links in new tab functionality. As were already mapping trough the links for the nofollow feature, we made sure all external links open in a new tab. Internal links from your forum will still open inside the same window as usual.

This unfortunately does mean that this extension now has a conflict with @010101 's elint extension.

Twitter card size
A new setting has been made available into the SEO settings tab: From now on you can set a Twitter card size when someone shares your community on Twitter. By default it is set to a large card. You can always switch back to the summary in the SEO settings.

If you have any feedback or issues, let us know!

Full changelog:

All external links are nofollow by default, but internal links are marked as do-follow
You can manage a do-follow links, excluding some external links to be marked as nofollow
All external links do now open in a new tab
Added twitter card size setting (default big)
Added Romanian language ( v17development/flarum-seo45 ), thanks @Gasjki for the taking the time to open a PR 🙂

How to update?

To update, run:

composer update v17development/flarum-seo

To install, run:

composer require v17development/flarum-seo

Do-follow list

010101

JasperVriends Very cool! Yes, uninstall elint before upgrading, everyone (if you use it). I’ll pop a disclaimer over on that thread. I won’t fully discontinue elint just in case for some strange reason someone doesn’t want to use this SEO extension, but they want the external/internal links feature. I don’t know why someone wouldn’t want this SEO extension, but you never know. 🤷‍♂️

MikeJones

JasperVriends awesome! So excited for the "do follow links" you are the man!

askvortsov

JasperVriends This extension (or elint) should be able to specify the other in composer.json under conflicts, that would prevent both from being installed, which is easier than relying on people to remember.

matteocontrini

JasperVriends Another new feature is the external links in new tab functionality. As were already mapping trough the links for the nofollow feature, we made sure all external links open in a new tab. Internal links from your forum will still open inside the same window as usual.

This unfortunately does mean that this extension now has a conflict with @010101 's elint extension.

Does this conflict with franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab as well? 🙂

MikeJones

@JasperVriends When I opened the do follow settings for the first time it had my domain in there automatically which was a nice touch but it was typed in like this:

://www.seekadventure.net

should I change it to:

seekadventure.net

I also just got this error in Sentry that looks related to do follow:

JasperVriends

MikeJones oh woops. No that's not necessary, it's just a placeholder generated via JavaScript for something that's automatically being added in the backend 😃

I'll fix the displayed domain in the next version 😛

JasperVriends

MikeJones Ah i see, thanks for the bug report!

askvortsov The confict has already been added to the composer.json 😃

JasperVriends

Update v1.6.2

Fixed the two bugs found by MikeJones and added franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab to the composer.json conflict.

To update, run:

composer update v17development/flarum-seo

MikeJones No need to, I've just tagged v1.6.2 🙂

matteocontrini Does this conflict with franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab as well)?

Oh... I didn't knew about that one... Yes it does indeed, I added it to the composer.json conflict 🙂

rob006

askvortsov I don't think that using conflict is correct here. It will prevent installing both these extensions at the same time, while you really need to prevent enabling these extensions at the same time. It will mess up with setups like in FreeFlarum, where bunch of extensions is installed and user can pick which he wants to use. With conflict you can't provide both these extensions.

Conflicts should probably be handled at Flarum level, when extension is enabled - you may provide better info what is the problem (output from Composer is pretty cryptic, especially for non-technical users) and prevent problems like this:

JasperVriends added franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab to the composer.json conflict

That could make it worse than before. Now if you you have franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab installed, Composer will just silently install older (v1.6.1) release, which has known bugs and also does not work with franzliedke/flarum-open-links-in-new-tab.

MikeJones

JasperVriends no problem. Should I disable extension until it is fixed?

MikeJones

JasperVriends damn your quick! Much appreciated!

askvortsov

rob006 Ah that's a really good point. There's plans in place for Flarum-driven optional dependencies (if A is an optional dependency of B, and both are enabled, boot A before B always), conflicts could be a good addition too. Especially if we eventually build in some form of GUI for managing extensions via composer to Flarum.

JasperVriends

rob006 askvortsov Interesting. Good points. What would you guys recommend to do now?

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