Edit SEO Properties not available for pages - sharepoint

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Edit SEO Properties not available for pages - sharepoint

Johnny Barz 1

Hi,
I have read the article: https://blog.mastykarz.nl/search-engine-optimization-sharepoint-2013/
and several others.
In this part: "SEO Properties for Publishing Pages"
it is explained how to edit SEO properties of a page, we manage to edit SEO properties for folders in sharepoint but when trying to edit a page the "Edit SEO Properties" is greyed out and we can't use it.
We did a test of creating a wiki page template and then the option is available but when trying for published pages which are under custom templates we cannot edit SEO properties.

Do we need to activate some feature?

Thanks,

Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801 Reputation points

2021-10-20T02:16:08.293+00:00

I'm looking into your issue now and I will reply you as soon as possible.

Thanks for your understanding and patience :-)

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Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801 Reputation points

2021-10-20T02:16:08.293+00:00

I'm looking into your issue now and I will reply you as soon as possible.

Thanks for your understanding and patience :-)

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Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801

Hi @Johnny Barz , welcome to Q&A forum!

Per my test, I am able to reproduce your issue in my end:

The issue is that if your friendly URL equal to the real site’s URLs (which is not bad because it is possible to switch to structural URLs and your links will still work, because http://example.com/test will be automatically resolved to http://example.com/test/pages/default.aspx), then “Edit SEO properties” command will be disabled.

You could try to use the direct URL. For example, the url is http://example.com/test , change it to http://example.com/test/_layouts/15/SEOProperties.aspx?Source=/test/pages/default.aspx&page=1

Reference:
Problem with SEO properties for pages with friendly URLs in Sharepoint 2013
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Johnny Barz 1 Reputation point

2021-10-20T08:01:14.987+00:00

Hi @Elsie Lu_MSFT ,
Thank you for the help though we tried this solution and we receive an error.

We tried this link: https://www.OURSITE.es/_layouts/15/SEOProperties.aspx?Source=/Paginas/default.aspx&page=1
And we receive this: "We are sorry, there was a problem"

Do you have another solution in mind or maybe we are doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801 Reputation points

2021-10-22T09:20:27.147+00:00

I'm looking into your issue now and I will get back to you ASAP.
Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801 Reputation points

2021-10-26T09:12:33.557+00:00

Hi @Johnny Barz ,

Sorry for the delay. As this thread mentioned:

The SEO feature is only for publishing pages, and it is disabled for wiki pages or web part pages.

So if the pages are wiki pages or web part pages, the SEO setting is disabled. This is a default behavior for SEO in SharePoint.

In a publishing page:
Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,801 Reputation points

2021-11-01T09:22:00.853+00:00

Hi @Johnny Barz , is my suggestion helpful? I am willing to hear from you.

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