Iron SEO aimes to provide a simple way to set on-page SEO related tags.
$ meteor add rainhaven:iron-seoTo really make your site search engine friendly, the spiderable package needs to be installed in your app. You can learn more about spiderable here.
Note: If you're not using meteor deploy, you'll also want ensure that phantomjs is installed on your server.
The title tag can be set by defining a title property on your route controller, and setting it to either a string or a function that returns a string.
HomeController = RouteController.extend({
title: 'My Brand — A Compelling Web Page',
// results in: <title>My Brand — A Compelling Web Page</title>
...Return a title from the database.
If, for example, you have a Posts collection and you want the title tag to be a documents field from the database, that's easy to do with iron-seo. All title and meta tags are called from the context of Iron.utils, which means you have full access to this.params.
HomeController = RouteController.extend({
title: function() {
var post = Posts.findOne(this.params._id);
if (post)
return post.title;
},
// results in: <title>Whatever the post title is</title>
...Similar to title tags, meta name tags are also defined on the route controller. Meta name tags are nested.
HomeController = RouteController.extend({
metaNames: {
description: 'We build world class Meteor apps',
},
// results in: <meta name="description" content="We build world class Meteor apps">
...Meta property tags are useful for controlling how your websites content appears when shared on Facebook
HomeController = RouteController.extend({
metaProperties: {
'og:type': 'article',
'og:title': 'My click bait title',
'og:image': 'http://mysite.com/images/click-bait.png'
},
...Control how your web sites content is displayed when shared on Twitter
HomeController = RouteController.extend({
metaNames: {
"twitter:card": "summary",
"twitter:site": "@twitterhandle",
"twitter:title": "Cat Tripple Back Flip",
"twitter:description": "Cat Lands a Tripple Back Flip on a Skateboard",
"twitter:image": "http://mysite.com/images/image-for-twitter-card.png"
},
...