I'm currently creating meta descriptions and a little uncertain on the title tag field and which part of the description it effects in the SERPS.

My question is two fold:

1. All of my title tags display the page name followed by >> as indicated in the attached screenshot. Do I need to change the page name or just the "Title" under the 'metadata' drop down field in pages.

2. If I've got a subsite running, say for an Australian market, can I customize the meta description/title tag?

Does Silverstripe have an SEO module available similar to Yoast for Wordpress?

Hey Moses,

There are a couple of things to be aware of with meta title in SilverStripe. It is going to depend on how your theme templates are set up (talk to your developer about this).

1. Often themes are set up so that all you need to do is update the page title and the theme will auto generate a meta title in the format "Page Title >> Site Name" (with the site name being set in the Settings section of SilverStripe CMS.

2. Again depending on the theme setup, providing an explicit meta title in the meta dropdown section will actually override point 1 from above.
If you can understand a bit of cod then this line in our simple theme might make some sense https://github.com/silverstripe-themes/silverstripe-simple/blob/master/templates/Page.ss#L17 (Of course in your own theme this could be different).

Your subsite should be under a different domain? In that case... you can just provide different meta title/descriptions for each page in a subsite just like regular pages.

Not familiar with Yoast however I have come across this module relating to SEO stuff in SilverStripe https://github.com/hubertusanton/silverstripe-seo