Meta Tags

Utilities > System Settings > Meta Tags

Manages available meta tags for content.

The meta tag manager stores a list of available meta tag types for a content page. To add meta tags and meta content to web pages, see Meta Content

  1. Bulk Update Meta Tags
  2. Add a New Meta Tag
  3. Add a New Attribute
  4. Standard Meta Tags

 

Bulk Update Meta Tags

Utilities > System Settings > Meta Tags

Use the bulk update option against each meta tag to update a meta tag for one or more pages at the same time without using the page editor.

  1. Populate the content field with the relevant data
  2. Select all the sites/sections the pages to update are held in
  3. Select the languages that apply
  4. Select the pages to change (these results have filtered)
  5. Click update to apply the tag

The change will be applied to all selected pages but will not appear as a new page version.

Add a New Meta Tag

Utilities > System Settings > Meta Tags

If a new meta tag is needed, it can be added as follows. For this example we want to add
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="">

  1. Click add meta tag button
  2. Enter the meta tag name
  3. Choose one or more meta tag attributes e.g. name and content (If you need to add a new attribute follow steps in Add a New Attribute first)
  4. Populate each meta tag attribute e.g. populate name with apple-mobile-web-app-capable
  5. Check read only beside the relevant attributes e.g. for name as this should remain apple-mobile-web-app-capable but not beside content as this may change between pages
  6. Click confirm to save

The new meta tag is now available to populate via bulk update or the meta tags mode in the page editor.

Add a New Attribute

Utilities > System Settings > Meta Tags

In <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content=""> the attribute is name. There are several default attributes set in iCentric:

  • charset
  • content
  • http-equiv
  • id
  • name
  • scheme
  • title

To add a new attribute:

  1. Click create attribute
  2. Enter attribute name e.g. scheme
  3. Click confirm

Your new attribute is now available to use.

Standard Meta Tags

iCentric is pre-populated with a number of meta tag types including:

  • Abstract - a very short description of your website
  • Author - the author of the page or the content within it
  • Cache Control - instructs the browser whether to cache the page
  • Category - Similar to classification, historically used tag
  • Classification - Similar to category, historically used tag
  • Copyright - a copyright statement
  • Coverage - the extent or scope of the content of the resource, typically spatial, temporal, jurisdiction
  • Description - short description of the page. In some situations it is used as part of the search engine result snippet
  • Designer - historically used to indicate the name of the page designer
  • Directory - historically used for some web directories
  • Distribution - historically used to indicate geographical relevance
  • Expires - date and time after which the document should be considered expired.
  • Google Site Verification - verify ownership of the site for the Google Search Console
  • Google WMT Site Verification - verify ownership of the site for Google Webmaster Tools
  • Identifier - an unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context, such as the URL, or ISBN
  • Keywords - list of keywords and phrases to guide search engines
  • Language - indicates the language the page is written in
  • News Keywords - specifies keywords most relevant to an article for Google News
  • No Index - prevents most search engine web crawlers from indexing a page
  • Owner - historically indicated the owner of the site
  • Pragma - historically indicated cached information should not be used
  • Rating - historically used for some third party web filters
  • Reply - historically used to indicate a reply to email address
  • Revised - used to tell search engines the date and time the content was last modified
  • Revisit After - intended to instruct how often the page should be reindexed by search engines
  • Robots - can control the behaviour of search engine crawling
  • Standout - used for Google News if a news article is breaking a big story, extraordinary work of journalism, and if it hasn't been used more than seven times in the past calendar week
  • Subject - a topic of the content of the resource, keywords, keyphrases, classification codes
  • Summary - historically used in a similar way to description
  • Topic - historically the topic of the page
  • Url - historically the URL of the page

 

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