Magento 2 SEO extension Standard was developed by Mageplaza is the best FREE marketing tool in order to help you automatically optimize and greatly improve the performance of your Magento-based store in Search Engines. With a list of outstanding and effective tools, our Better SEO extension will bring to your store a great chance to own an amazing speed as well as gain the higher and higher rank in the popular and famous search engines such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo.
In order to install SEO extension on your store, you can learn and do it by yourself via Installation Guide or use Installation Service Package to request the specialist helps from Mageplaza Team.
After loging in as Admin account, go to the path Mageplaza > SEO > Settings
.
Open General Configuration section, you can see:
Add Nofollow meta in Search Result
if you select “Yes” optionAdd Nofollow meta in Product Gallery
if you select “Yes” optionEnable Sitelink Search Box
to “Yes” means showing another search box that shows the more detailed search results on the destination site.Stop words
field, choose the language of the stop words to use.
For example: if choose en (English), the stop words are a the, of, for, etc.Continue with the next session - Duplicate Content, there are some configurations related to the duplicate content:
Add Canonical URL Meta
Canonical points to https
field, you can choose “Yes” or “No” option depending on whether you would prefer the https version of a page or notSocial Shares provides the working fields that support for the better SEO on the social channels. Now expand that section and do the following:
It is possible to show Open Graph that is a short description of your website whenever visitors publish on the social medias like Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and other social networks.
If disable the open graph on the social network, please choose “No” to turn it off in Add Open Graph meta tags
field
You can also add Twitter Card Meta tags
when the visitors share your website on Twitter
Enter Pinterest Confirmation Code
to verify your website. Follow the instruction here
Enter Google+ Publisher Page
if you need
Scroll down and expand the Structured Data section, you will:
Include Structured Data in the search results right after enabling the rich snippet in the configuration
Structured Data may be review stars, an aggregate rating value, and vote count, etc. You can learn it more at the link
Disable Product Structured Data
by selecting “No” if your theme or module implements it’s own product snippets.
Allow applying Organization Information
that describes the results in detailed. Furthermore, you can custom that data via this guide
Mageplaza SEO extension permits to show Social Profiles when your website is searched on Google.
You can enable Business Information if choosing “Yes”. Just enter the information into the corresponding fields, then all of them will be shown on the search result.
Enabling Breadcrumbs is the way to show the exact position in the site hierarchy, for example: www.mageplaza.com > Magento 2 Extensions > Better SEO
. If you really want to apply for your product page, under Breadcrumbs section, please select “Yes” in the Enable Breadcrumbs Rich Snippet
field.
In the Verification
field, you need to enter the verification code to confirm the ownership of your site. Hence, you can use the Web services such as Google Search Console, Bing Wesmaster Tools, Pinterest and Yandex Webmaster Tools.
The Hreflang tag is the necessary tag if your website must approach multi-countries. The hreflang attribute tells Google which language you are using on a specific page, so the search engine can serve that result to users searching in that language.
In order to use the hreflang tag, you need to do: