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Hello,

I am trying to get people to find our website through Umbraco SEO. The SEO widget is being installed. What happens after that to connect the website's content to the SEO widget so people can search with key words we provide and Google can rank our page high in the results? Any explanatory answer would help. Thanks!

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Installing an "SEO" widget in Umbraco is helpful, but it does not automatically make pages rank. The widget usually adds editor fields (title, meta description, canonical, robots, Open Graph, maybe sitemap options). After installation those fields must be added to document types, populated on content nodes, and your templates must render the values into the page HTML so search engines can read them. The underlying SEO principles are the same across CMSs, as noted; Umbraco just controls how you edit and output the data.

  • Add the SEO fields to relevant Document Types (Settings > Document Types) and republish affected content.
  • Populate the SEO fields in the Content section for each node; provide unique titles and descriptions.
  • Make sure templates render those fields into <title> and <meta name="description" ...> and include canonical links where needed.
  • Generate and expose an XML sitemap, check robots.txt, and submit the sitemap to Google Search Console.
  • Fix redirects (301) for URL changes, add structured data where useful, and ensure pages are mobile friendly and fast.

Quick guidance: aim for unique titles ~50-60 characters and descriptions around 150-160 characters; do not rely on meta keywords (Google ignores them); avoid duplicate meta tags across pages. Troubleshooting: if meta values do not appear in the HTML, check that the property is on the correct Document Type, that templates use the property (or fall back to node name), and that caching/publishing is not preventing updates. For : fill the fields and confirm via View Source or a URL inspection tool that the tags are present before expecting ranking changes.

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sounds like a piece of shit

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LOL why you think SEO for umbraco will be different from other cms' SEO?

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