Hi Robert

I would suggest that you have the above properties on each document type that represents a page on your website. And then you could create a seo fallback tab on your "home" (root node) to use when the seo fields have not been filled in on one or more of the child nodes.

I will also recommend that you make some generic fallback for the page title where you take the nodename and concat it with the fallback title value to make sure each page has a unique page title value in case it has not been filled out.

I hope this helps.

/Jan

We've often found that if you give Jan's sort of setup to the client that they very rarely undestand the if you don't put anything in then it will default to x + y... So we extend slightly on Jan's approach, and use the parameters as he has, but hook into the page creation event to automatically put the default into the seo page title.

public class SetDefaultsHandler : ApplicationBase
    {
        public SetDefaultsHandler()
        {
            Document.New += new Document.NewEventHandler(Document_New);
        }

        void Document_New(Document sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.NewEventArgs e)
        {
            Document doc = (Document)sender;

            try
            {
                doc.getProperty("menubarTitle").Value = doc.Text + UmbracoJPT.Utils.Util.GetPropertyValueRecursive(doc, "seoAppend");
                doc.getProperty("altTitle").Value = doc.Text;
                doc.getProperty("title").Value = doc.Text;

                //System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(doc.ContentType.Alias);
                switch (doc.ContentType.Alias)
                {
                    case "NewsDocument":
                        doc.getProperty("hideInNavigation").Value = true;
                        break;
                    case "FileDocument":
                        doc.getProperty("hideInNavigation").Value = true;
                        break;
                    case "MemberDocument":
                        doc.getProperty("hideInNavigation").Value = true;
                        break;
                    default:
                        break;
                }
            }
            catch { }

            //Log.Add(LogTypes.Custom, doc.Id, "Document_AfterNew Executed in AutoUnpublishNewsHandler");
        }

We also have a dashboard to do search and replace type updates across all pages for if the SEO title changes at some point in the project.

Thanks

I have set up an SEO tab on my content types which is all working fine.

How do I get it to use the Home node as the fallback title? I can set it to use a different field such as @pagename, but I dont see a different node option?

Thanks
Robert 

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