middleman-seo

A SEO-optimized project template for Middleman, the amazing static site building tool.

Confused about what it means to SEO-optimize your site from a technical perspective? Read this.

Design goals

SEO Features

Comprehensive meta tags for search engines and social media platforms
Easily manage critical site-wide information in data/site.yml
Customizable page-level title, description, and image via Frontmatter
Sitemaps generated in both HTML and XML
Accurate social share URL template helpers
Customizable robots.txt generation via middleman-robots
Preferred URL (rel="canonical") for any page by setting the preferred_url key in the page's frontmatter
- Example: preferred_url: http://medium.com/article-name will produce <link href="http://medium.com/article-name" rel="canonical">

Other Features

Optionally manage frontend dependencies via Bower
1. Install package: bower install package-name -S
2. The bower package is automatically imported into asset pipeline
3. Include them directly in your javascript or Sass file

Clone this repo into your ~/.middleman directory as "seo"

git clone git@github.com:secretsaucehq/middleman-seo.git ~/.middleman/seo

Now you can simply init new projects with the "seo" template:

middleman init my-project --template=seo

This template uses Bower to manage JavaScript and CSS packages. Install these before Middleman can build your site:

bower install

Just don't forget to update ~/.middleman/seo every now and then.