How to handle meta titles and descriptions for multilingual website?

[calvinfu1128]

Regarding the captioned, would adding more fields to SeoCollection and making use of i18n package work?

If not, how should it be handled?

Many thanks.

Calvin

[natalie-natsu]

I agree :+1:

Should we always use the dynamic SEO.set() for multilingual websites ?

onAfterAction: function() {
    var title = TAPi18n.__('template.contact.page.title');
    var description = TAPi18n.__('template.contact.page.description');

    SEO.set({
        title: title,
        meta: {
            'description': description
        }
    });
}

[mwarren2]

Adding a 'lang' field to SeoCollection seems to work well. I just set up the collection and with the help of a little function it now does everything by itself.

Basically in the global onBeforeAction() I call a function called doSeo() which does a look up in SeoCollection, and everything looks like it works. A real test in the wild will be in a couple of weeks when I finally install my app, but at the moment the titles and metas are being set correctly and in the right language.

Router.onBeforeAction(function(){
    var router = this;
    doSEO(router.route.getName());
    this.next();
});

The function itself:

var doSEO = function(routeName){

     if (!Meteor.isClient) {
        return;
     }

    var currentLang = I18NConf.getLanguage();
    if(!currentLang)
        return;

    var seoRecord = SeoCollection.findOne({route_name: routeName, lang: currentLang});

    if(!seoRecord){
        return;
    }

    SEO.set({
        title: seoRecord.title,
        meta: {
            'description': seoRecord.meta.description
        },
        og: {
            'title': seoRecord.title,
            'description': seoRecord.meta.description
        }
    });

};

The only thing I can't work out is what has happened to the default look up which the package does in SeoCollection. There doesn't seem to be a way of turning off the database look up, it's just automatic. I'd like to see a field in seo.config() such as database:false to turn it off since I'm calling the database myself. I suppose I could just change the name of SeoCollection to something of my own choice, if necessary.