ian.keirQ: Reposting this, as my original question got buried with no response: Hi David, thanks for bringing this ...
product to Appsumo and for being so responsive to questions. I have a few quick questions I'm hoping you can help me with. I'm looking to offer websites to my SEO clients, so I would like to ensure that the sites follow best practices.
1. I see that there is the "SEO Settings" area for titles, meta descriptions, etc. I'm curious why meta keywords are still being used, as this is something that all the major search engines have deprecated and aren't using. I know this is optional, but I'm just curious why it would still be included.
2. I noticed that there's no way to create a robots.txt file, which is crucial for handling search spiders. Is creating a robots.txt file in the Roadmap?
3. Most of the XML sitemaps seem very basic, and when I looked at some other sites built with Bookmark, I wasn't seeing any product pages listed. Can we control what pages are added to that XML sitemap? Or is that the "Hide from Search Engines" option (which I would assume is a no-index)?
4. Can we add custom Javascript site-wide (I use Convertfox for live chat and would like to ensure that I could add their Javascript code in)?
5. Do we have the option to add social markup somewhere to control how OpenGraph and TwitterCards are generated?
6. Is there somewhere in the code that we would be able to add schema markup (structured data markup)? This is really important for me, especially with clients.
Thanks again!
David_Bookmark
May 14, 2024A: Hello Ian.Keir, sorry if I missed your first time you posted this. I try to scan all questions to ensure I don't miss any.
Happy to provide you with the answers to these now.
1 - You and I know that keywords are no longer used, but there are many people that do not know this fact. We didn't want to remove them because of this reason. Also, Bookmark is a global product, there are search engines in other parts of the world that still may use keywords. I didn't see any harm to leave them.
2 - If you go to SETTINGS / SEO we have a constantly updating sitemap for websites. Robots.txt is a really good one, looks like we don't have this at the moment. Please add this to our 2019 roadmap as I do feel this one is important.
https://www.bookmark.com/askanexpert/feedback
As soon as AppSumo deal is over and things settle down a bit we'll start to go through the feedback of what features we'll be adding next.
Be sure to upvote what you want.
3 - Yes, the hide from search engine is a no-index. The site map we provide will be based on the normal webpages that are not hidden. When you say you weren't seeing the product pages? Are you saying the Ecommerce store?
4 - With Bookmark you can add custom code anywhere on your page with header and footer codes site wide or by using the code module. I've not tested Convertfox, but I'd be curious if you added it to tell me if it works.
5 - No, sorry we don't have this feature.
6 - Yes, you can 100% add schema markups (structured data markup ). Go to SETTINGS / SEO and add this into the footer or header code area.
Hope I've answers your questions, please add any features you'd like to see into our feedback area. This will be what we use for our 2019 roadmap.
https://www.bookmark.com/askanexpert/feedback
We're also happy to chat with you on LIVE chat inside Bookmark to answer more questions.