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How to optimize a Category with content properties

This is a step-by-step guide on how to optimize a category in Sportal365.

The category properties offered in the Sportal365 CMS serve as features designed to visually enrich the look of category pages on your website and optimize them for search engines.

 

Remember that when you create a category, you can create a category page on your website that consists of all posts related to that category. The content properties help you optimize the page associated with the category. 

Optimizing a category

Follow the steps below to learn how to optimize the categories you create. Here’s how:

  1. In the left sidebar, under OTHER, select Categories.

2. When the Categories listing opens, select Edit next to the category you want to optimize (e.g. “Football”).

3. On the category’s edit screen, go to the content properties on the right of your screen. There are three tabs with properties to optimize your category–Media, URLs, SEO.


Create category screen in CMS 4.8.0 (breadcrumb Dashboard / Categories / Create category). Left: Title, Subtitle, Description, HTML description editor, Is Active (checked) and SAVE CATEGORY. Right: the Media panel expanded (Main image, Image Description, Add description to image, Apply quick watermark, Upload image, Edit Image, Crop image, Toggle already uploaded images, Choose Main Media), with URLs and SEO collapsed.

 Media Tab

 The Media tab is where you upload the Main media for your categories. The Main image is the image that will appear as the header (or main media) of your category page. Also, you can use a video or a gallery as the main media for your category. 
 

Note that when you optimize the media of a category you have created, you optimize how the page consisting of all posts related to the category will look.

 
 

To optimize your category’s media:

  1. Expand the Media tab to select category media.

 

2. If you want to upload new main image(s), select Upload image.

3. To upload already existing images in the system as main image(s), select Toggle already uploaded images.

4. To use a video, a gallery or an embedded video as the main media instead, expand the Choose Main Media box and select Video, Gallery or Embed video.

Note that once you select an image as the main media, you can crop it by selecting Crop image.

 

URLs Tab

By optimizing the URLs tab of a category, you tell search engines what category pages of your website to index and what not. This feature is especially helpful in cases such as advertising campaigns and duplicated content.

To optimize your category’s URLs tab:

  1. Expand the URLs tab.

2. In the External URL box, paste the URL to an external source you want to send users to.

 

3. Next, expand the Type of redirect to select if you want your redirect to be permanent/temporary.

 

 

4. Lastly, if you want to avoid duplicating content, select the Canonical URL box and paste the preferred URL you want search engines to index.