SEO Meta tags for pages

We have some legacy pages where the channel page contains a content instance with the same name. Both the channel and content instance have SEO tab where users can populate the meta tags for title, description and keywords. For these pages, we would like to use the SEO values from the content instance rather than the channel page. Our template code refers to the content instance in the following manner:

<page:contentRegion name="<somename>"
types="VgnExtQuery" scope="template" displayInContextEdit="true"
jsp="<somedisplayview.jsp>" />

In the displayview.jsp, we try to get the metatitle and metadescription:

    reqContext = PageUtil.getCurrentRequestContext(pageContext);
   channel = reqContext.getRequestedChannel();
   if(reqContext.getMetaTitle()!=null)
       metaTitle = reqContext.getMetaTitle();
   if(reqContext.getMetaDescription()!=null)
       metaDescription = reqContext.getMetaDescription();
   QueryContentComponent qc = (QueryContentComponent)reqContext.getRenderedManagedObject();
    if(qc != null){
       List results = qc.getResults(reqContext);
           if(results.size() > 0){
               ci = (ContentInstance)results.get(0);
            }
    }

It seems in this case, the requestContext here returns the channel page rather than the content instance pageand we are not getting the metaTitle or metaDescription from the content instance page, just the channel page.

How can I extrapolate from here to get the meta tags that I want?

Thanks,
Christine

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Aparna_PaiBhale

Hello,

Any answers for the above query ? We also want to retrieve the meta-data associated with the content instances rather than the channels.

Please let us know which APIs to use.

Regards,

Aparna

Tomas_Briceno_Fernandez

Hi Apama,

Please review KBA 49334825:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=49334825&objAction=ArticleView&viewType=1

Regards,

Tomás

Pushpavathi_Kammela

Hello,

We are able to get the Meta tags for SEO through WEM API,

Now we are having challenge in getting this info for all Content instances (CIs) which are published, for some reason this data is not getting for CIs, when we added title description and key word in SEO tab and republished the content, but is it not getting the metadata from the WEM API, but when we went back and checked in content workspace, there is a Item Page for that CI which was still not approved and not published. So we did approve separately for that content instance and published, that’s when we are able to get SEO metadata.

Now we are having this as an additional publishing step in order to get SEO metadata, we are ending up publishing CI Item Page which is extra step in addition to the regular Content Instance. Do you know is there a way we can automatically publish the Item page tied to the Content Instance when we add SEO attributes? Do you think there are any additional configuration steps we have to add for CTDs in order to publish Item pages which are giving SEO attribute data.

Any additional information on this is helpful

Appreciated all the help!

Thanks

Corey_Kniese

Hi,

I know this thread is 3 years ago , but we are having the same issue with the Item Page not getting published with the content instance, how did you resolve this?

Shilpa Vodapalli

Hi Corey,

The item pages aren't published when the content instances they are associated with are.

Pages need to be published explicitly for the presentation assets to be available on delivery.

Publishing through the tools palette (publish page option) will take care of updating the contextual information on delivery. When this option is used, the item page of the CI is published along with it's SEO information.

Thanks,

Shilpa