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Hello,

Your question about iframes has already been answered, but I thought I'd share my experiences with Sharepoint as a blog platform...

I've just spent the past few months building a site in Sharepoint with a blog. We ended up coming up with a couple of different solutions from an SEO perspective...

The biggest issues the out-of-the-box blog in Sharepoint (I'm assumine 2010 or 2007 here) faces are:

• Lack of SEO friendly URLs
• No meta description
• The apparent inability to display an excerpt on the homepage of the blog.
• Horrible horrible commenting system

Unfortunately the blog uses a query to pull the posts from a list, and it's a lot harder to modify than a standard page layout.

We've been testing out two solutions:

1. Using an article page for the blog post, a content query web part to roll up these articles on a "blog" page, and then used the Byline field on the article as a way to power both the meta description (I can locate the code for you for that if you want) and the excerpt.

We then created "category" pages which contained another content query web part, which attempted to display all posts that had a certain keyword in them.

Finally, we ditched the Sharepoint comments system altogether, and used Disqus (which was surprisingly easy to add to the blog)

It was pretty clunky, but from a purely SEO perspective, it's working out fine.

2. That said, we're unhappy with how clunky it is for internal users, so we're now working with an open source solution that enhances Sharepoint's native blog. http://cks.codeplex.com/releases/view/28520

Just this morning we got it to work with Sharepoint 2010. It covers most of the issues I outlined above (though we're still going to implement disqus) aside from the meta description, which is what I'm set to tackle next.

Hopefully this provides some guidance on where you might be able to go while remaining with Sharepoint.

I think you should be good leaving it alone, then.

You could put rel=canonical on the post page only (don't put it on the tags or category pages) but that might be more trouble than it's worth, depending on the restrictions imposed by the CMS.

Hi Cesar,

It might be too late, but you should check to see if Google has even crawled that page yet (check out the cache, and whether or not your changes are showing up in the SERPS).

Can you be specific about what you mean by "Meta titles"? Do you mean title tags?

Title tags will certainly have an effect on your ranking. Meta descriptions and keywords will not (though the former will certainly affect click-through rates).

If you are talking about title tags, can you tell us what you changed them to? and what they were before?

Are there any other issues or changes that might affect rankings? For which phrases did the rank drop happen?

+1 for Yoast and the comments about it being more important than the theme. I've yet to encounter compatibility issues with the plugin, and we do a lot of development work in WordPress.

Personally, I think a decent paragraph of text is good to have on the homepage. That said, if you've got sub-pages that are more appropriate to your keywords, ranking them is most likely going to yield the best long-term results, even if it takes a bit longer.