Customizable meta-fields?

The current verison of Piranha CMS (2.x) has fields for the meta tags keywords & description. Maybe it would be nice to be able to configurate the meta fields that should be available and have them as a dynamic collection. This could for example configurated like this:

"SEO" : [
  {
    "Id" : "keywords",
    "Title": "Keywords",
    "Mandatory": false,
    "Max": 128
  },
  {
    "Id": "description",
    "Title": "Description",
    "Mandatory": false,
    "Max": 255
  }
]

These fields should also be available when manipulating the model from code, for example:

var post = api.Posts.GetById(...);

post.SEO["keywords"] = "Piranha,CMS,Blog,.NET,DotNetCore,MVC";
post.SEO["description"] = "This is the description for the post";

[tidyui]

All of this would actually be doable right now with the current page type support, but with some nicer structure like this:

using Piranha.Extend.Fields;
using Piranha.Models;

public class SEO
{
  [Field(Title = "Change Freq")]
  public StringField SearchEngineChangeFreq { get; set; }
  [Field(Title = "Priority")]
  public StringField SearchEnginePriority { get; set; }
}

public abstract class MyPageBase<T> : Page<T> where T : Page<T>
{
  [Region]
  public SEO SEO { get; set; }
}

The only thing missing is the enum support which I like and will add before the first release!

/Håkan

[LucGosso]

Regarding SEO on applicationlevel: here is my input from experience:

In Episerver CMS it’s common to inherit an abstract BaseSearchPage or ISearchPage. For being able to build a proper sitemap.xml as Google wants it, you’ll need these properties:

If you don’t inherit from this class, you’ll output no-index in metatag and does’nt display it in sitemap.xml.

`{ public abstract class BaseSearchIndexable : BasePageModel { [Display(Name = “Exclude from search indexing”, Description = “”, Order = 10000, GroupName = “SEO”)] public override bool ExcludeFromSearch { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific(true)]
    [Display(Name = "Search Engine Title",
        Description = "",
        Order = 10001,
        GroupName = "SEO")]
    public override string SearchEngineTitle { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific(true)]
    [Display(Name = "Search engine description",
        Description = "",
        Order = 10002,
        GroupName = "SEO")]
    [UIHint("textarea")]
   public virtual string SearchEngineDescription { get; set; }
    
    [UIHint("AppSettings")]
    [Display(Name = "Search Engine ChangeFreq",
        Description = "",
        Order = 10003,
        GroupName = "SEO")]
    public override string SearchEngineChangeFreq { get; set; }

    [UIHint("AppSettings")]
    [Display(Name = "Search Engine Priority",
        Description = "",
        Order = 10004,
        GroupName = "SEO")]
    public override string SearchEnginePriority { get; set; }

     [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(Name = "Search engine keywords",
        Description = "",
        Order = 10010,
        GroupName = "SEO")]
    public virtual string MetaKeywords { get; set; }

//extra bonusproperty if you somehow have a custom searchengine [CultureSpecific] [Display(Name = “Include as Best bet”, Description = “Best bets are custom hits that you can create and display above the organic results list. They are perfect for giving users quick answers to common questions, as well as for messages targeted for specific search terms – your own sponsored links”, Order = 1000, GroupName = “SEO”)] public virtual bool BestBet { get; set; } }}`