I am now slowly getting the hang of Concrete CMS, and I like it. There still are some small adjustments I need to do (date-time) but it is quite intuitive to work with. Coming from WP there are however some small things that I don’t have the hang of yet. One is the SEO optimisation.
I have made a xml sitemap, and also added the structured sitemap add-on. I have it in standard settings for now.
I can’t find any robots.txt though. Is that made automatically? Or don’t we use that in Concrete CMS?
But most important to me are the meta gags and descriptions. I am used to SEO Framework, where I can put tags and descriptions in order to see if they are optimised or not (Too short, too long). Is that not important if I use Concrete CMS? Or how many letters are advised to use in the meta title and description?
I apologize for the brevity, as I’m not very knowledgeable about this.
I performed a fresh installation of ConcreteCMS 9.4.8 without doing anything else, but the files were already there.
There isn’t the facility in Concrete to add anything like SEO Framework that I’m aware of but you can of course easily add all the relevant meta tags. Personally I use various third party tools to generate, improve and check titles, descriptions etc. then copy them over to Concrete. Don’t forget your on-page content too - headings, alts for images, hit your keywords with bold, italics etc.
General SEO tips - don’t forget to add Schema markup sitewide in the header code and on-page where appropriate. Make sure and run your site through Google Lighthouse or e.g. gtmetrix to make sure it loads fast. You likely already know this but just in case; you should also register your site with Google search console and submit your sitemap.
