You will find a few options to configure on the Dokan Cloud SEO Settings page. These are:
- General
- Social Share
- Advance
- Site Verification, and
- Sitemaps
Now let’s check what to configure in every section!
General
If you click on the SEO option under the Settings button, you’ll ultimately land on the General settings page of the SEO part.
Here you have to configure these options:
- Title: Give your marketplace a title
- Site URL: Insert your marketplace URL here.
- Meta Description: Write a meta description for your marketplace. This meta should be under 160 characters.
While you are updating these fields, you will be able to check the preview in the Search Engine Preview option.
Social Share
Now if you click on the “Social Share” tab, you will find options to set Open Graph (og) image title, description, and image.
You should set the Title, Description, and Image so that whenever someone shares your marketplace on any social platform, it shows this title, description, and image.
Afterward, there is an option named Twitter Settings. Following the same process, in this part, you also need to set the title, description, and image for sharing on Twitter.
There is an extra option in this part which is “Select card size”. Basically, if you choose the card size- Large, a standard-size image will be shown on Twitter. And if you choose the card size- Small, the image size will be smaller on Twitter.
Once you’re done with this configuration, just click on the “Save” button to store all these changes.
Advance
Now click on the Advance tab. In this tab, you will find Structured Data Markup options. Your goal is to make your site eligible for rich results in search engines.
These are the options that you need to configure:
Site Type
If you want to show your marketplace as a website, you should select the Website option here. However, if your marketplace is more like an organization like eBay, you should select the option- Organization.
Robots Meta Tag
- noindex: Do not list this page in search results.
- nofollow: Do not follow links on this page.
- nosnippet: Do not show a text snippet or video preview for this page in search results.
- noarchive: Do not show a cached link for this page in search results.
- noimageindex: Do not index images on this page.
Max Image Preview
Set the maximum size of an image preview for this page in a search result.
- None: No image preview is shown
- Standard: Shows a default image preview
- Large: Shows a larger image preview up to the width of the visible area of the page
Max Snippet
Enter the maximum number of characters that search engines will use in a text snippet for this page in search results.
There are two special cases:
0: No snippet is shown
-1: This tells search engines there is no snippet length limit. Search engines will choose the most effective snippet length.
Max Video Preview
Set a maximum number of seconds as a video snippet for videos on this page in a search result.
There are two special cases:
0: This tells search engines to use a static image only
-1: This tells search engines there is no video preview length limit
Site Verification
It’s time to configure the Site Verification tab. Click on that tab, there you will see options to verify your marketplace for different search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu, and so on.
To verify your marketplace for Google, just click on the link provided under the Google Verification ID box. It will take you to a new interface. There you need to provide all the required information to verify your marketplace.
After verification, you will get an ID. Copy that and paste it into this Google Verification ID box.
That’s all! That’s how you can verify your marketplace for Google.
Now following the same procedure, verify your marketplace for different search engines.
Sitemaps
Basically, there is nothing much to do here for you as an admin. You can view your sitemaps from this tab.
All the sitemaps will be generated automatically. To check your marketplace sitemap, simply click on the “View your sitemap” option.
