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SEO Landing Pages

Create and manage your SEO landing pages easily.

SEO gives great importance to 3 html elements in the html head: title, meta description and meta keywords (to a lesser extent).

This gem lets you easily:

• create landing pages identified by their path
• edit their title, description and keywords
• render them easily in your views with provided helpers
• have your SEO guru love you :-)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'seo_landing_pages'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install seo_landing_pages

Usage

The landing pages data

Use the generator provided to create the landing pages table

$ rails g seo_landing_pages migration

run the migration and you should be ready to create landing pages, an example in the rails console would be:

> SeoLandingPages::Model.create! slug: '/', title: 'SEO landing pages FTW'

Note the slug must be given and be unique.

It's your work now to determine which pages you want to create, e.g. for your blog, listings page, etc.

Configure the controller

Configure your ApplicationController by running:

$ rails g seo_landing_pages controller

That will include the module SeoLandingPages::Controllers::Helpers in your controller, the module provides a method seo_current_landing_page which finds a Landing Page matching the request path (/ in the example), and also will make view helpers available for your views.

For advanced options of how to match Landing Pages check the module mentioned.

Landing pages in the views

To show the SEO data in your views there are handy view helpers available, add to your views layout in the head section:

= seo_landing_page_title_tag
= seo_landing_page_description_tag
= seo_landing_page_keywords_tag

these add the proper HTML tags, visit your home page and the title SEO Landing Pages FTW should be showing in your HTML.

There are also helpers to access the landing pages attributes without the HTML tag for you to concatenate them or so.

= seo_landing_page_title
= seo_landing_page_description
= seo_landing_page_keywords

Internationalization support

For internationalization, instead of writing plain text in the title, description and keywords write i18n keys, e.g. a landing page for your home page:

> SeoLandingPages::Model.create! slug: '/', title:       'title_home_page',
                                            description: 'description_home_page',
                                            keywords:    'keywords_home_page'

Create the translations in your locale files. Then use the view helpers like this:

= seo_landing_page_title_tag i18n: true
= seo_landing_page_description_tag i18n: true
= seo_landing_page_keywords_tag i18n: true

Now your pages have the HTML elements localized.

Admin section

There's an Active Admin view provided, to get it run:

$ rails g seo_landing_pages active_admin

$ rails g seo_landing_pages i18n

and let your SEO guru float in love waves editing all the Landing Pages and seeing traffic increasing for your website.

TODO

• write another CRUD admin section for those not using Active Admin, or accept a Pull Request having it ;-)
• fix the TODOs in the code
• write tests

Contributing

• Fork it ( https://github.com/joahking/seo_landing_pages/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request

Credits

This gem was developed in the Hack Week at XING Barcelona, Big thanks to XING for providing the time to see ideas being realized.