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[[FR:Métadonnées, optimisation pour les moteurs de recherche et médias sociaux]]

[[FR:COVID-19 Metadonnees, optimisation pour les moteurs de recherche et medias sociaux]]

 

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When applied correctly, metadata helps relevant pages rank higher in search results. It can help Canadians access and share the critical information they are looking for.

When applied correctly, metadata helps relevant pages rank higher in search results. It can help Canadians access and share the critical information they are looking for.

*Search engines use certain metadata fields such as metatitle, description and keyword as ranking factors, for results display, and to create rich snippets; the Canada.ca search engine boosts the metatitle, description, and keyword fields; additionally URL is a relevancy and minor ranking factor.

*Search engines use certain metadata fields such as metatitle, description and keyword as ranking factors, for results display, and to create rich snippets; the Canada.ca search engine boosts the metatitle, description, and keyword fields; additionally URL is a relevancy and minor ranking factor.

*Social media sites (tweets, posts) are pulling: title, description

*Social media sites (tweets, posts) are pulling: title, description

*In the context that we are in, focusing on these ones will give you the most benefits:

*In the context that we are in, focusing on these ones will give you the most benefits:

**'''Title''' must be unique, accurately summarize, and distinguish the page content. It should be short and start with the most important keywords (in case it is truncated in search results.)

**'''Title''' must be unique, accurately summarize, and distinguish the page content. It should be short and start with the most important keywords (in case it is truncated in search results).

**'''Description''' should provide concrete additional information about what the users will find on the page, or what task they can complete.

**'''Description''' should provide concrete additional information about what the users will find on the page, or what task they can complete.

**'''Keywords''' should include relevant words from the page as well as their commonly known synonyms

**'''Keywords''' should consist of commonly used words, synonyms and acronyms for important words, concepts and phrases found in the text. Include words that users may use to search for the page.

**'''URLs''' should use plain language keywords from the title and be separated with hyphens

**'''URLs''' should use plain language keywords from the title and be separated with hyphens

Use this worksheet to help apply the right COVID metadata in AEM:

==News products: ‎Guidance for creation of COVID-19 news product metadata in AEM==

* [[:File:Metadata in AEM-COVID-19.docx|Metadata in AEM worksheet]]

[[Category:COVID Communications]]

:These guidelines provide detailed metadata creation instructions for news product pages created in AEM, and directly or indirectly related to COVID-19.

*[[:File:Principal Publisher - Guide - Adding a COVID Tag.docx|Instructions: Adding a COVID-19 tag to a News Product]] (last modified 2020-05-12)

:This document provides detailed instructions on how to apply the Themes and topics value '''Coronavirus (COVID-19)''' to a news product in the AEM News module.  [[Category:COVID Communications]]