Technical search engine optimization (SEO) is one of our priorities as optimising for search everywhere is to pay attention to the virtual display window for your website, e-commerce store or web-platform and ensures that you can be noticed and attract visitors.
- Performance
Fast time to first byte (TTFB) and overall page speed - Automatically generated sitemap
Dynamic sitemap generation for improved search engine visibility and indexing - Robots.txt
A configurable robots.txt to control the scope of crawlers. - SEO metafields
Admin fields for search engine results page (SERP) content - Canonical URL
Theme object for specifying the URL the main version if there are duplicate or near-duplicate pages - IndexNow support
Host key for IndexNow submissions - Descriptive and modifiable URLs
URLs are automatically created from titles but can be modified - Themes with structural data
Structual data is built into premade themes. - Image resize filters
Images can be resized with template filters to use correct size - Alt text on images
Images in the system has support for including an alt-text - Theme code freedom
Themes have full access for modifications, improvements and customizations
Performance
- set the foundation right
The foundation for good SEO is a fast and well-functioning webpage. Cradle software is built for a fast time to first byte (TTFB) and page speed which simplifies the process of shipping solutions with excellent Core Web Vitals metrics. Prebuilt themes have full code access for modifications, improvements and customisations to the specific venture. Theme templating functions, such as image size filters gives control over the images used on the web.
Website code access for modifications, improvements and customisations
Full access to the code that builds the website enables customisations to the specific needs for a venture. Learn more about themes
Image handling
Serving images automatically in correct format ensures that images are of correct size. Image resize filters to serve the correct size. More on filters
Machine readable
- make the bots happy
Automatically generated sitemap
A sitemap is a file that lists all published content on a site and helps website crawlers, such as Google, to crawl the content more efficiently. An open site always has a sitemap of the published content locatad at the URL https://mydomain.com/sitemap.xml
Robots.txt file
A robots.txt file is instructions for bots that crawls your site, with Cradle CMS a file is generated from the content given in admin under Site settings, making it easy to control the content. The robots.txt file can be used to control the crawl budget and give directions on how the website should be crawled to search engines. Go to guide on site settings.
SEO metafields
All pages, blogs and articles (as well as collections and products for eCommerce) has a section for content, such as meta titles, descriptions, and keywords, used for search engine results page (SERP) can be added.
Canonical links
With tag {{ canonicalUrl }} the system will automatically generate the canonical URL. This is usually included in all themes in the <head> with <link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonicalUrl }}" />.
IndexNow support
Search engines need to be updated of new and updated content and this is done with IndexNow functionality. To be able to do this a host key is generated for each site. Read our guide on IndexNow
Descriptive and modifiable URLs
The URLs are created from the title and can easily be modified.
Themes with structural data
Themes are built with structural data snippets included.