Comments on: Optimize Publishing Pages for search engines using the Imtech SharePoint SEO Slugs Feature

By: Meghan Baker

Meghan Baker — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:53:09 +0000

Great solution Waldek!:D Thanks for sharing!!

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:43:02 +0000

@Mark: Thanks! Great to hear it helped you!

By: Mark Parter

Mark Parter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:42:03 +0000

Excellent work Waldek. Works a treat with the key being your last disclaimer on performing an IISReset and flushing out the temporary ASP.NET files. Didn't work for me initially until I did this.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:07:12 +0000

@Brian: Just let me check if I understand you correctly: you want the title of the Search Results page to be "My Query" instead "Search Results: My Query"? A while ago I've worked on a WCM site that uses SharePoint Search. Changing the title of the page was as easy as changing it in the Master Page. Check out http://www.oasen.nl/Pages/Results.aspx?k=test for results. Is that what you want to achieve?

By: Brian Bateman

Brian Bateman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:48:29 +0000

This is a nice little feature, however, I just copy the title as I wrote it and insert it into the file name with the spaces, and that works fine.

I would like to see a way to optimize the search results page titles.

MOSS always titles the search results like so: Search Results: LinkedIn. What the search engines apparently see is "Search Results".

If a search were performed for "LinkedIn", it would be much more relevant if the title of the search results page were simply "LinkedIn".

Likewise for a search performed with two or more words like "Wisconsin Insurance Company", then the title would be more helpful to people and search engines if the search results page was dynamically titled "Wisconsin Insurance Company".

Let me know if you come up with something, and I'll even compensate you for your time.

Thanks, Brian Bateman, http://www.usalocalsearch.com

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:58:42 +0000

@Sam: Have you cleared the ASP.NET temporary files? It might just be that the cached pages are preventing the solution from kicking in.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:38:02 +0000

I would like to say thank you for providing this niffy solution.

We have installed the feature. But our page url does not get separated with "-". We are working on a 64bit MOSS platform…..does this matter?

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:46 +0000

Great post. Thank you

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:35:25 +0000

Generating the page name is JavaScript based. So using an ASP.NET Page Adapter I have added some additional JavaScript code to the page which makes generating SEO Slugs happen.

By: rathi

rathi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:44:01 +0000

Very good feature! Can you post some details how you were able to modify the create page?

cheers