Jahia CMS & SEO - Overview
Jahia CMS offers several built-in features to manage and improve your technical SEO. The following table provides a high level overview of these features: their name, description and which Jahia module is providing them. It is also a good list of features that any CMS should have regarding technical SEO. Documentation and details are available for each module.
Name of the feature |
Jahia module providing the feature |
Description |
Robots.txt |
Robots.txt |
A simple UI to edit the robots.txt file |
Sitemap configuration & generation |
Sitemap |
Configuration UI and automated generation of the sitemap files. This feature is taking languages, live roles and no index into account. |
Page metadata - No index |
Sitemap |
A field available when editing any page, to set the content as "Noindex" in the robots page metadata and remove the page from the Sitemap |
Page metadata - No follow |
Sitemap |
A field available when editing any page, to set the content as "Nofollow" in the robots page metadata. |
Vanity & canonical URLs |
Site settings SEO |
A complete UI to define and manage vanity URLs & canonical for each page. Also provides a dashboard to give an overview of all used vanity URLs. |
Page metadata - Alternate |
Site settings SEO |
Automated generation of alternate / hreflang tag, to provide information to search engines about other translations of the page |
Page metadata - Canonical |
Site settings SEO |
Automated generation of self-referential canonical tag |
Page metadata - Description |
Jahia core |
A description field is displayed by default in the content editor form, on every content items. It can be used to define the meta description for each page. To do so, retrieve the value fo this field from your page templates. |