The largest channel for discovering content for the Experience Cloud is organic search from external search engines, primarily Google. To help improve content discovery for customers, content presented on pages requires optimizing for the indexers to easily catalog what a page is about.
Initially this process is straightforward, giving basic information, but can become more nuanced the more specifically you want to tune pages.
External search engines require several elements to be available for good quality indexing.
SCCM automatically takes care of page syntax, sitemaps, and structure. As writers, the SCCM process relies on you adding the information to this structure.
The SCCM internal search engine does not create a full-page index currently. Instead, the engine indexes only the following:
Specifying title
and description
metadata is especially important to improve internal search. Try to include likely search terms and synonyms in your descriptions. For guidance, see Title and description for SEO.
The internal search also indexes the following metadata that allows users to filter their search results:
For more information which values to specify for these search filters, see Metadata.
SCCM stores metadata in three places.
The metadata.md
file at the root of your content guide is much like a birth certificate, with basic information that is applied to all pages in the material set. You set up this page SCCM when you create a content set. You don’t need to edit this file often.
The TOC.md
file. This file provides every page with metadata about which solution or sub solution this content relates to, as well as audience type, and so on.
On your content pages. The content pages need only these fields completed:
Examples:
---
title: How to Use decryptPassword in Adobe Analytics
description: Decrypt a password stored in an external account with the decryptPassword function. Learn how to call in JSSP or SOAP call implementations with Adobe API.
---
For guidance, see Title and description for SEO
We are deprecating the seo-title
and seo-description
fields. We included these fields in the migration to be in line with chl-author (helpx). You can remove or ignore the seo-title
and seo-description
fields. Google uses the regular title
and description
fields.
Useful tips about tuning your pages for search.
title
and description
metadata on your page. (seo-title
and seo-description
are deprecated. )For guidance, see Title and description for SEO
Scene7
, demdex
, SiteCatalyst
) in your description if relevant. Many of our customers still use previous product names when searching and it’s useful to match them up.Google has the ability to change the title of a page in the results and construct it from meta, page content and titles, if it thinks it is a closer/more helpful result. So we might see some results change, and have no match to any one field. The more accurate we are, the less that should happen, but it’s possible. We have seen a few examples where we can’t explain where a title word came from. That is Google adjusting a title for accuracy.
If search entries match content in the title, description, and first paragraph, the page will likely appear much higher in the list of search results. Use key search terms early and as often as possible (without being contrived or repetitious) in these places:
Sample first paragraph in an overview:
Audiences are collections of visitors (a list of visitor IDs). Adobe's audience service manages the translation of visitor data into audience segmentation. As such, creating and managing audiences is similar to creating and using segments, with the added ability to share the audience segment to the Experience Cloud.
Sample first paragraph in a task:
Create the customer attribute source (CSV and FIN files) and upload the data. You can activate the data source when you are ready. After the data source is active, share the attribute data to Analytics and Target.
SEO guidance:
See Viewing Google Search data