Overview

Set up general SEO settings for Shopify blogs

Who can use this feature?

• This feature is available for all users

What we help

With built-in SEO feature, we help set up general SEO settings for Shopify blogs, including meta tags and social preview.

In app, click create a new blog -> Set up SEO on the right panel

Visibility

Visibility is your blog status on your page.

• Visible: Blog post will be published on your site after saving

• Hidden: Keep the blog unpublished You can schedule to publish this blog post. Select Hidden -> Click Set visibility time -> Set your publishing time.

Google preview

Google preview is how your blog post looks like on Google search results.

We help set up meta title, meta description and URL.

• What is meta tags?

Meta tags provide information for search engines to understand the content and relevance of a webpage. This help improve site rankings and visibility in search results.

Meta tags include title and description.

Enter your title (less than 70 characters) and description (less than 320 characters).

Learn more about tips to write meta title.

• What is URL handle?

URL handle is part of the URL to a specific product, collection, or page on your site. URL handle here is for your blog.

By default, URL handle will take after the title of the blog.

With URL analysis, you can know if URL handle follow SEO best practices:

• Stop words: Stop words are a set of commonly used words in any language. For example, in English, “the”, “is” and “and”. Stop words in URLs add unnecessary length without providing meaningful information to search engines or users.

• Character count: Keep your URL less than 80 characters.

• URL slug: A URL slug is the end part of a URL after the backslash (/) that identifies that blog post.

Click Suggest URL to get URL suggestion for your blog.

Select Redirect to optimized URL to redirect your blog to the suggested URL.

Social preview

This helps you edit how your blogs look when they're shared on social media. You can set up image, title and description of the shared link.

After setting up, you need to add a piece of code to your theme. Go to Themes -> Select current theme -> Click Edit code -> Go to theme.liquid

• Add this code {% render 'avada-blog-social' %} as below image

  
• Go to snippets -> Add a new snippet -> Name new file: avada-blog-social

  

  
• Add this code -> click Save

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  {%- assign avada_blog_og_title = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialTitle | strip_html | strip_newlines | strip | escape -%}
  {%- assign avada_blog_og_description = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialDescription | strip_html | strip_newlines | strip | escape -%}
  {%- assign avada_blog_og_image = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialImage -%}
  
  {%- if request.page_type == 'article' -%}
    <!-- Avada Blog Open Graph Meta Tags -->
    {% if avada_blog_og_title and avada_blog_og_title != "" %}
      <meta property="og:title" content="{{ avada_blog_og_title }}" />
    {% endif %}  
    {% if avada_blog_og_description and avada_blog_og_description != "" %}
      <meta property="og:description" content="{{ avada_blog_og_description }}" />
    {% endif %}
    {% if avada_blog_og_image and avada_blog_og_image != "" %}
      <meta property="og:image" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}" />
      <meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}">
    {% endif %}  
    
    <!-- Twitter Card Meta Tags -->
    <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
    {% if avada_blog_og_title and avada_blog_og_title != "" %}
      <meta name="twitter:title" content="{{ avada_blog_og_title }}" />
    {% endif %}  
    {% if avada_blog_og_description and avada_blog_og_description != "" %}
    <meta name="twitter:description" content="{{ avada_blog_og_description }}" />
    {% endif %}
    {% if avada_blog_og_image and avada_blog_og_image != "" %}
      <meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}" />
    {% endif %}  
  {% endif %}