Laravel Meta Manager is a powerful SEO tool designed to enhance the search engine optimization (SEO) of your Laravel application or specific web pages. By incorporating recommended meta tags, it helps improve the visibility and ranking of your website on search engine results pages (SERPs), Laravel Meta Manager simplifies the process of optimizing your website for search engines by providing a comprehensive set of meta tags. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can easily install and configure Laravel Meta Manager to enhance the SEO of your Laravel application or web pages.

SEO Features: Laravel Meta Manager provides a range of SEO features including:

• Standard Meta Tags
• Facebook OpenGraph Meta Tags
• Twitter Card Meta Tags
• Dublin Core Meta Tags
• Link Tags

Requirements: Before installing Laravel Meta Manager, ensure that your system meets the following requirements.

• PHP 5.4 and above

Steps:

1. Install: You can install Laravel Meta Manager via Composer by running the following command.

composer require davmixcool/laravel-meta-manager

2. Configuration: Once installed, Laravel 5.5+ users can take advantage of Package Auto-Discovery, eliminating the need for manual ServiceProvider addition. However, if you’re not using Laravel 5.5+, you’ll need to add the following ServiceProvider to your config/app.php file.

'providers' => [
    Davmixcool\MetaManager\MetaServiceProvider::class,
];

After adding the ServiceProvider, run the following command to publish the configuration file.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Davmixcool\MetaManager\MetaServiceProvider"

3. Usage: To set default application meta, you can configure settings in the meta.php file. However, this step is optional but highly recommended. Options available for configuration include.

• robots
• revisit_after
• referrer
• type
• title
• description
• image
• author
• geo_region
• geo_position
• twitter_site
• twitter_card
• fb_app_id
• keywords

Once configured, you can include meta tags in your HTML template using the @include directive.

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
    @include('meta::manager')
</head>

Alternatively, you can define specific options dynamically.

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
    @include('meta::manager', [
        'title'         => 'My Example Title',
        'description'   => 'This is my example description',
        'image'         => 'Url to the image',
    ])
</head>

Example: Here’s a basic example demonstrating the usage of Laravel Meta Manager within an HTML document.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
    @include('meta::manager', [
        'title'         => 'My Example Title',
        'description'   => 'This is my example description',
        'image'         => '',
    ])
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>