# SEO and Page Metadata

> Outputting the tags search engines and social platforms read — title, robots, canonical, Open Graph — and building an XML sitemap.

URL: https://www.hannonhill.com/cascadecms/latest/articles/developing-in-cascade/seo/index.html
category: Developing in Cascade
article-type: concept
content-kind: article
release-availability: all
tags: templates, metadata, velocity
updated: 2026-10-06

Search engines and social platforms read tags that Cascade CMS doesn't output on its own. Each article here sets up one of those tags: a Template region to hold it, and a Format or system tag that fills it in from the current page.

## Related

- [Creating a sitemap](https://www.hannonhill.com/cascadecms/latest/articles/developing-in-cascade/strategy/creating-a-sitemap-in-cascade-cms.html) — the approaches available and when each fits.
- [Including a page's ID in its contents](https://www.hannonhill.com/cascadecms/latest/articles/developing-in-cascade/script-formats/include-page-id-in-contents.html) — for deep linking from web governance tools.