Viewing/ Editing Page Properties

To view and edit the properties of a page, follow these steps:

1. Select View/Edit Properties from the Page Properties menu on the Site Editor toolbar.

OR

1. In the Menus and Pages page list, highlight a page and click Edit Properties.

The Page Properties container will open, and you can edit as necessary. The window is divided into main sections including your basic properties such as Page Title on the left along with your indexing Tags. The Right Side has three tabs:

• SEO Properties (default)
• Custom Styles and Scripts
• Security and Settings.

Most users will never need to access the latter two tabs.

View and edit the basic Page Properties as described in the following table:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a practice used to enhance organic (from natural unpaid search results) traffic for a website. Good SEO helps your site rank higher in results lists from search engines such as Google and Bing.

SEO involves two main pieces: strategy and tactics. A strategy must be put together by people, but iAPPS can play a large role in helping you with the basic tactics of SEO, especially by helping create structure for your site content that Google understands.

Managing SEO for your site is a complicated process. See the SEO Scenario for more information on ensuring your site is SEO friendly or you can contact Bridgeline’s Digital Strategy group for aid in a custom SEO strategy for your site.

There are also things you can do to adjust SEO settings for individual pages, such as editing SEO settings below.

	Description
H1 Tag	This is essentially the page's "headline". It is displayed in the <H1> tag in the page's HTML, and is often the same or similar as the Page Title. It should be descriptive to aid in searches and so that Users know they have arrived at the right page.
Title Tag	The <TITLE> tag value to appear at the top of browser window or tab. Limit the Title Tag to no more than 55-65 characters.
Url Friendly Name	This name makes it easier for a user and a search engine crawler to decipher. It is used for Search Engine Optimization, and is often used to shorten the page name for specific campaign.
Keywords	Descriptive keywords about the page to power the internal site search engine
Descriptive Metadata	This data appears as the <META> tag value in the HTML of the page and on most search results pages. It should be descriptive and keyword rich. 150 character limit, although not all of these will initial display.
Other Metadata	Any other HTML meta data that you want to appear inside the rendered HTML of the page. If you need to use a canonical tag, this is where it would be placed. You generally will not need to worry about this.

-- These will rarely,if ever, need to be changed.

• Custom Styles specifies the CSS file(s) that apply to this page.
• Custom Scripts specifies the JavaScript file(s) that apply to this page.

• Security Level
  • Specifies the security level(s) designating which website users have permissions to access this page.
  • If the page has a level assigned, unless a website user is tagged with the same level in their user profile, they will be blocked from seeing the page.
  • If you have the permissions, you can edit the Security Levels from here by clicking Edit Security Levels.
  • If you wish to assign a level, simply check the box next to the appropriate level or levels.
• Exclude from Search, robots.txt and sitemap.
  • Checking this will hide the page from the internal search index as well as from external web searching and crawling.
• Page Caching Enabled
  • Your site's default setting will be noted.
  • Either check or uncheck as desired.
  • Enabling caching often speeds up page load time, but many pages with dynamic content need page caching disabled. Talk to your site administrator for more detail.
• Is Page in Index
  • If the page has been indexed for Enterprise Search, this will read True.