SkaDate Documentation

This area allows to manage all SEO settings.

The SEO page allows you to manage the meta information for the base, users and photo pages.

Title - enter the title of the page or leave the default title.

Meta description - enter the page meta description.

Meta keywords - enter the page meta keywords.

Allow for indexing - check this box if the page should be indexed.

Sitemap is is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.

By default the SkaDate software package includes the sitemap.xml and robots.txt files. You will be able to access these files on your server in the public_html/directory or other directory the software is installed in.

To get the sitemap working add the following code to the end of the robots.txt file:

Sitemap:http://[your_site_URL]/sitemap.xml

The robots.txt file content for the SkaDate demo site looks like this:

# 
# This file contains rules to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts 
# of your web site by spiders of a major search engines likes Google and Yahoo. 
# By managing these rules you can allow or disallow access to specific folders
# and files for such spyders. 
# The good way to hide private data or save a lot of bandwidth. 
#
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
Disallow:/ow_version.xml
Disallow:/INSTALL.txt
Disallow:/LICENSE.txt
Disallow:/README.txt
Disallow:/UPDATE.txt
Disallow:/CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow:/admin/

Sitemap: https://demo.skadate.com/sitemap.xml

The Sitemap settings section allows you to manage the sitemap settings.

Schedule updates - set the interval the sitemap should be updated within.

The recommendable value is weekly; this is the average frequency the pages' content is changed in.

Page types -choose the pages that should be included in the sitemap.

Base Pages like Join, Sign in custom pages like Terms of use etc., Users or Photos pages.

Since the sitemap generation process depends on Cron Jobs, make sure it is working on your server.

If the site is populated and consists of many pages, the sitemap generation may take up to several days.

The system grabs all content from the SEO Page Settings and adds it to the Open Graph Tags.

All you need is upload your site logo or image that should show when users share link to your site in the social media. It should be a .jpg image 1000px width.