UMass Chan CMS Blog

CMS editors, and anyone working at the university, can subscribe to our UMass Chan CMS Yammer channel to get email notifications when new posts are created. We post all sorts of news regarding the CMS, such as new functionality, tutorials, maintenance and ideas.

Review your CMS content pages for better SEO rankings, update page properties and content, linking practices and resources for learning more about SEO.

A new way of requesting assistance with our university’s content management system, Optimizely CMS, formally known as EPiServer, is now available.

A CMS Membership Area is a web page, and any of its child pages, that is restricted to a certain User Group and requires membership account to log in.

Create a sitemap page that lists all of your sites pages on your web site. This allows your viewers to have a page to navigate to and find what they are looking for. This is also a useful tool for site owners to review what pages they have on their site.

Deleting or moving many pages can cause negative rankings in SEO. The search engines, like Google and Bing, have indexed your site and it will crawl it periodically to note changes in content. When it can't find many of the pages, your SEO rankings decrease. This affects your site as well as all UMassmed.edu sites.

If moving or deleting your pages, you will first want to find out what other pages are linked to this page.