django-check-seo 0.0.7

Django Check SEO will check the SEO aspects of your site for you, and will provide advice in case of problems.

Replacing some features of Yoast or SEMrush for django CMS users.

In other words, django-check-seo will tell you if you have problems concerning a broad range of SEO aspects of your pages.

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Installation

The following instructions are for an installation on a djangocms-based website using >=python3 & >=django2.

For instruction on how to install django-check-seo on a djangocms-based website that runs on python 2.7 and django 1.8.15, clic here:

1. Install module using pipenv:

pipenv install django-check-seo

• Or pip:

pip install django-check-seo

2. Add it to your installed apps:

    "django_check_seo",

3. Add it to your urls.py (before url(r'^', include('cms.urls')), or it will not work):

    url(r"^django-check-seo/", include("django_check_seo.urls")),

• Or add this if you're using path:

    path("django-check-seo/", include("django_check_seo.urls")),

4. Update your site parameters with correct url (example for dev environment)

5. 

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Prerequisites

This application need beautifulsoup4, requests, djangocms & djangocms_page_meta.

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Config

Basic settings

Basic config (used by default) is in django-check-seo/conf/settings.py:

SEO_SETTINGS = {
    "content_words_number": [300, 600],
    "internal_links": 1,
    "external_links": 1,
    "meta_title_length": [30, 60],
    "meta_description_length": [50, 160],
    "keywords_in_first_words": 50,
    "max_link_depth": 3,
    "max_url_length": 70,
}

If you need to change something, just define it in your mywebsite/settings.py file in a dict named DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_SETTINGS.

Example:

If you put this in your settings.py file:

DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_SETTINGS = {
    "internal_links": 25,
    "meta_title_length": [15,30],
}

Then this will be the settings used by the application:

SEO_SETTINGS = {
    "content_words_number": [300, 600],
    "internal_links": 25,
    "external_links": 1,
    "meta_title_length": [15,30],
    "meta_description_length": [50, 160],
    "keywords_in_first_words": 50,
    "max_link_depth": 3,
    "max_url_length": 70,
}

Use http instead of https

By default, the application will attempt to make requests in https.

To enable plain http queries, you can add a variable named DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_FORCE_HTTP set to True in your settings.py.

Example:

# Force HTTP
DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_FORCE_HTTP = True

# Force HTTPS (default case, same as not defining the variable)
DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_FORCE_HTTP = False

Authentication

The website you want to test may require a prior connection due to a .htaccess file (or may use wsgi-basic-auth), which prevents django-check-seo from accessing its html code.

To prevent this, you can specify the login informations (username/password) in the DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_AUTH dictionnary (in your website settings).

This dictionary must contain two keys named user and pass.

Example:

• In mywebsite/settings.py:

DJANGO_CHECK_SEO_AUTH = {
    "user": os.getenv("HTACCESS_USER"),
    "pass": os.getenv("HTACCESS_PASS"),
}

• In .env file:

export HTACCESS_USER=myusername
export HTACCESS_PASS=mypassword

WSGI_AUTH_CREDENTIALS=$HTACCESS_USER:$HTACCESS_PASS

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Want a screenshot?

Other screenshots and videos are available on the wiki.

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Interested in finding out more?

Take a look at the wiki:

• List & explanations of all checks
• How to add a check?
• ...