Jahia CMS & SEO - Overview

October 8, 2024

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.