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ericv - 6/28/2012 2:51:04 PM

how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO

Hi,
I have used a page analyzer tool http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html
and it reports many flaws on my Home page from an SEO point of view like no title tag.
However if I browse www.mydomain.com then the title tag is there.
Now if I specify www.mydomain.com/hpme.aspx the the correct page is found by the tool and the page is approved.
I guess the SEO robots have a similar problem then with the Home page.

The question is how do I avoid this?
Any tips? Thanks, eric

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ericv - 6/29/2012 3:17:34 AM

RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO

I think I found the tip in the developers guide, SEO.
I have applied the documented changes.I still have a problem to copy the Home page contents to the Masterpage. At least that is my interpretation of the 'root', i.e. you make the masterpage your Home page.

QUESTION:
--> widgets are not installable on the masterpage, except for a single widget. The widget setup is identical to the Corporate site where the Home page contains a newsletter widget and a rich text widget etc.. You can install ONE widget. If you add the second one then the first one disappears.

To be complete, the editable textt webparts are empty in the masterpage as documented. So contents is copied from the Home page webpart to the masterpage area.

QUESTION:
I do not understand the note:
" Also make sure that the Web part control ID properties of all web parts on your Home page are different than those of web parts on the root of your website."

There is no editable text webpart on my masterpage. I have indicated in the page placeholder property to use the Homepage template. Consequently I I have the editable areas in my masterpage as a result of the webparts in my home page, correct?

Any advice is appreciated on these 2 questions. Thanks, eric

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Jiveabillion - 7/5/2012 3:14:14 PM

RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO

Have you set the default alias path up for your website in Site Manager >Settings > Your Site> Content > Web site content > Default Alias Path?

If you do that, the url for http://yoursitedomain.com should automatically resolve to whatever you set your default alias path to be. It should even be able to pull up the content of that page without changing the url in your browser.

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ericv - 7/6/2012 2:34:46 AM

RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO

Well, the dev. guide spends a long chapter Development > Page processing and URLs: Search Engine Optimizatin on this topic and it describes to delete the contents of the Default Alias Path. The whole procedure gave me errors in the regular CMS processing so I dropped this topic.
I did not understand it either since I had the same understanding as you have of the default Alias Path. Anyway my first priority was to have a working website and the tool is a prio 2.
Thanks for your feedback, please see my comment on your 2nd post.
-E.


Certified Developer 8	Jiveabillion - 7/5/2012 3:17:05 PM RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO I just tested that tool you are using on my own site and I am going to say that the tool is wrong about the title tag. It says my page doesn't have one and every other tool I used can see it, even google's "Fetch as google bot" tool.


Member	ericv - 7/6/2012 2:37:55 AM RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO Thanks for your tip on google''s "Fetch as google bot" tool. I did not know it and it is very useful. I will use that from now on. -E.


Member	ericv - 7/6/2012 4:00:31 AM RE:how to set Home page without Home.aspx for SEO I verified with the Fetch on Google tool and both domain.com and domain.com/home.aspx were succesfully crawled. I guess that FOG should be the lithmus test then.