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Devin Intermediate

Posted on Jan 8, 2010 (permalink)

Hi I'd like to be able to organize my head tags like this:

<head>
<title>title</title>
<meta name="Description" content="..." />
<meta name="Keywords" content="..." />
...
</head>

The key is that I would also like to be able to edit Description and Keywords for each individual page in the CMS. I think this would be very useful for SEO purposes. I think this is something that all Sitefinity users can benefit from.

Thanks,
Devin

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Jan 10, 2010 (permalink)

Hi Devin,

The key is that I would also like to be able to edit Description and Keywords for each individual page in the CMS.

You can do this through Sitefinity backend. Each page has a section under More Options called - Add Head tags(For all languages)
Another option is using a simple user control and standard ASP.NET class HtmlMeta

sample code:

public partial class Sitefinity_UserControls_MetaTagsControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl

{

   #region Public Properties

   public string MetaTagName

   {

       get

       {

           return metaTagName;

       }

       set

       {

           metaTagName = value;

       }

   }

   public string MetaTagContent

   {

       get

       {

           return metaTagContent;

       }

       set

       {

           metaTagContent = value;

       }

   }

   #endregion

   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

       HtmlMeta metaTag = new HtmlMeta();

       metaTag.Name = this.MetaTagName;

       metaTag.Content = this.MetaTagContent;

       this.Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaTag);

   }

   private string metaTagName;

   private string metaTagContent;

}

Sincerely yours,
Ivan Dimitrov
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David Pearson

Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (permalink)

Hi Ivan,

Will this override the Description and keyword in SiteFinity. I am researching an ideal to dynamically recreate the values from a database on PageLoad where we random select and reorder keywords depending on which page is being displayed.

Thanks,
David

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (permalink)

Hello David Pearson,

This will not override the default keys. If you want to remove any key you can use Page.Header.Controls.Remove()

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
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David Pearson

Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (permalink)

Thanks Ivan for the quick answer,
I will get the work writing the back end module then start teh front end.
David

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Devin Intermediate

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 (permalink)

Hi,
This code will remove any existing meta tags that match the Name and add its own underneath the title tag.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

    HtmlMeta metaTag = new HtmlMeta();

    metaTag.Name = this.MetaTagName;

    metaTag.Content = this.MetaTagContent;

    for (int i = 0; i < Page.Header.Controls.Count; i++)

    {

        Control hm1 = Page.Header.Controls[i];

        if (hm1 is HtmlMeta && (((HtmlMeta)hm1).Name.ToLower() == this.MetaTagName.ToLower()))

        {

            Page.Header.Controls.Remove(hm1);

        }

    }

    this.Page.Header.Controls.AddAt(1, metaTag);

}

Thanks,
Devin

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Allan Cadenilla

Posted on Aug 18, 2010 (permalink)

I accomplish this with the following.

1) I created a custom class that inherited Telerik.Cms.Web.InternalPage
2) Override OnPreRender

protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)

    {

        base.OnPreRender(e);



        int idx = 0;

        HtmlTitle title = null;

        HtmlMeta keywords = null, description = null;



        foreach (Control c in this.Header.Controls)

        {

            HtmlTitle t = c as HtmlTitle;

            if (t != null)

            {

                title = t;

            }



            HtmlMeta m = c as HtmlMeta;

            if (m != null)

            {

                switch (m.Name.ToLower())

                {

                    case "keywords":

                        keywords = m;

                        break;

                    case "description":

                        description = m;

                        break;

                }

            }

        }



        if (title != null)

        {

            this.Header.Controls.Remove(title);

            this.Header.Controls.AddAt(idx++, title);

        }



        if (keywords != null)

        {

            this.Header.Controls.Remove(keywords);

            this.Header.Controls.AddAt(idx++, keywords);

        }



        if (description != null)

        {

            this.Header.Controls.Remove(description);

            this.Header.Controls.AddAt(idx++, description);

        }

    }

3) Go to ~/Sitefinity/CMSEntryPoint and substitute the inherits attribute with the custom class

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