diff --git a/History.markdown b/History.markdown index 5be1d6c..fdb8d0b 100644 --- a/History.markdown +++ b/History.markdown @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ * use example.com for example URL (#351) * remove Google+ from example snippet (#358) * HTTPS link to https://ogp.me/ (#359) + * Rename Google webmaster tools to Google Search Console (#403) + * Improve documentation on plugin usage (#399) + * Structured Data Testing Tool is deprecated (#409) ### Minor Enhancements diff --git a/docs/advanced-usage.md b/docs/advanced-usage.md index 985c494..a0d0a57 100644 --- a/docs/advanced-usage.md +++ b/docs/advanced-usage.md @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ image: ### Setting a default image -You can define a default image using [Front Matter default](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/#front-matter-defaults), to provide a default Twitter Card or OGP image to all of your posts and pages. +You can define a default image using [Front Matter defaults](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/front-matter-defaults/), to provide a default Twitter Card or OGP image to all of your posts and pages. Here is a very basic example, that you are encouraged to adapt to your needs: @@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ defaults: ### SmartyPants Titles -Titles will be processed using [Jekyll's `smartify` filter](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates/). This will use SmartyPants to translate plain ASCII punctuation into "smart" typographic punctuation. This will not render or strip any Markdown you may be using in a page title. +Titles will be processed using [Jekyll's `smartify` filter](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/filters/). This will use SmartyPants to translate plain ASCII punctuation into "smart" typographic punctuation. This will not render or strip any Markdown you may be using in a page title. ### Setting customized Canonical URL -You can set custom Canonical URL for a page by specifying canonical_url option in page front-matter. +You can set custom Canonical URL for a page by specifying canonical_url option in page front matter. E.g., you have the following in the page's front matter: ```yml layout: post @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Which will generate canonical_url with specified link in canonical_url. ``` If no canonical_url option was specified, then uses page url for generating canonical_url. -E.g., you have not specified canonical_url in front-matter: +E.g., you have not specified canonical_url in front matter: ```yml layout: post title: Title of Your Post diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md index c2890fb..78fcf07 100644 --- a/docs/usage.md +++ b/docs/usage.md @@ -1,23 +1,29 @@ ## Usage -The SEO tag will respect any of the following if included in your site's `_config.yml` (and simply not include them if they're not defined): +The SEO tag will respect any of the following if included in your site's `_config.yml` (and simply not include them if +they're not defined): -* `title` - Your site's title (e.g., Ben's awesome site, The GitHub Blog, etc.), used as part of the title tag like 'page.title | title'. -* `tagline` - A short description (e.g., A blog dedicated to reviewing cat gifs), used as part of the title tag of the home page like 'title | tagline'. -* `description` - A longer description used for the description meta tag. Also used as fallback for pages that don't provide their own `description` and as part of the home page title tag if `tagline` is not defined. +* `title` - Your site's title (e.g., *Ben's Awesome Site*, *The GitHub Blog*, etc.), used as part of the title tag like +`Home | Ben's Awesome Site`. +* `tagline` - A short description (e.g., *A blog dedicated to reviewing cat gifs*), used as part of the title tag like +`Ben's Awesome Site | A blog dedicated to reviewing cat gifs` instead of `Ben's Awesome Site | Long description about a +blog dedicated to reviewing cat gifs` that would be used when `page.title` is not defined. +* `description` - A longer description used for the description meta tag. Also used as fallback for pages that don't +provide their own `description`, and also as part of the page's title tag if neither `page.title` nor `site.tagline` +has been defined. * `url` - The full URL to your site. Note: `site.github.url` will be used by default. * `author` - global author information (see [Advanced usage](advanced-usage.md#author-information)) - * `twitter` - The following properties are available: * `twitter:card` - The site's default card type - * `twitter:username` - The site's Twitter handle. You'll want to describe it like so: + * `twitter:username` - The site's Twitter handle. + + You'll want to describe them like so: ```yml twitter: username: benbalter card: summary ``` - * `facebook` - The following properties are available: * `facebook:app_id` - a Facebook app ID for Facebook insights * `facebook:publisher` - a Facebook page URL or ID of the publishing entity @@ -31,9 +37,12 @@ The SEO tag will respect any of the following if included in your site's `_confi publisher: 1234 admins: 1234 ``` - -* `logo` - URL to a site-wide logo (e.g., `/assets/your-company-logo.png`) - If you would like the "publisher" property to be present, you must add this field to your site's configuration, during the validation of the structured data by Google web master tools, if the `logo` field is not validated, you will find errors inherent to the publisher in the [structured datas test](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/) -* `social` - For [specifying social profiles](https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/social-profiles). The following properties are available: +* `logo` - URL to a site-wide logo (e.g., `/assets/your-company-logo.png`) - If you would like the "publisher" property +to be present, you must add this field to your site's configuration, during the validation of the structured data by +Google Search Console, if the `logo` field is not validated, you will find errors inherent to the publisher in the +[Rich Results Testing Tool](https://search.google.com/test/rich-results) +* `social` - For [specifying social profiles](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/enhance-site#add-your-sites-name-logo-and-social-links). +The following properties are available: * `name` - If the user or organization name differs from the site's name * `links` - An array of links to social media profiles. @@ -47,19 +56,16 @@ The SEO tag will respect any of the following if included in your site's `_confi - https://github.com/benbalter - https://keybase.io/benbalter ``` - -* `google_site_verification` for verifying ownership via Google webmaster tools +* `google_site_verification` for verifying ownership via Google Search Console * Alternatively, verify ownership with several services at once using the following format: - -```yml -webmaster_verifications: - google: 1234 - bing: 1234 - alexa: 1234 - yandex: 1234 - baidu: 1234 -``` - + ```yml + webmaster_verifications: + google: 1234 + bing: 1234 + alexa: 1234 + yandex: 1234 + baidu: 1234 + ``` * `lang` - The locale these tags are marked up in. Of the format `language_TERRITORY`. Default is `en_US`. The SEO tag will respect the following YAML front matter if included in a post, page, or document: