The SEO tab provides information for Search Engine Optimizations, used when external search engines are examining the site.
SEO (Used for searches conducted via external search engines): This section contains settings that affect the information about the category that is made available to external search engines.
Exclude from XML Sitemap: Select this checkbox to exclude the category detail page from the sitemap that is generated for SEO.
Change Frequency: Select a value from this drop-down to indicate how frequently the category detail page is updated. This will be included in the generated sitemap for the site.
Priority: Select a value from this drop-down to indicate how important the category detail page is in comparison to other pages on the site. The higher the number chosen, the higher the importance of the category detail page. This will be included in the generated sitemap for the site.
URL Name Override: Enter text that will override the category name in the URL for the category. Capital letters will be replaced with lowercase letters. Spaces and non-alphanumeric characters are replaced with dashes.
Page Title Override: Enter text that will override the page title for the category page. The text in this field replaces the dynamically generated page title. Note - If the site generates page titles such that they contain standard text (e.g. appending the site name within the page title), the standard text will be added to the page title that is entered in this field.
Meta Descriptions: Enter the description that should be made available to external search engines.
Meta Keywords: Enter the search keywords that should be made available to external search engines. Meta keywords will appear in the source of the page for the category.
Site Search (Used for searches conducted on the brand website): This section contains information that will be used for searches on the website.
Keywords: Enter keywords that will be used for searches performed on the website. Any search performed using one of the keywords will return the category as a match for the search.
Save Metadata: This button saves modifications made on this tab to the database. No modifications will be saved until this tab is selected.