Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engine optimization is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines.

Overview

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which refers to the practice of optimizing a website's content, structure, and settings to improve its visibility and ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs). The goal of SEO is to increase the quantity and quality of organic traffic to a website from search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

How to use

Here we use SEO. The installation method is as follows below.

The official SEO documentation

Step 1: Install the necessary dependencies

The first step is to install the necessary dependencies for SEO in your app. You can do this using npm or yarn, depending on your preference. Here's the command to install the dependencies:

yarn add next-seo react-helmet

Step 2: Configure your app

Next, you'll need to configure your Next.js project to use the SEO package. To do this, create a _app.tsx file in your pages directory if you haven't already, and add the following code:

import type { AppProps } from 'next/app';
import { DefaultSeo } from 'next-seo';
import { Helmet } from 'react-helmet';

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <DefaultSeo
        title="Your Website Title"
        description="Your Website Description"
        openGraph={{
          type: 'website',
          url: 'https://yourwebsite.com',
          title: 'Your Website Title',
          description: 'Your Website Description',
          images: [
            {
              url: 'https://yourwebsite.com/og-image.jpg',
              width: 1200,
              height: 630,
              alt: 'Your Website Title',
            },
          ],
        }}
      />
      <Helmet>
        <html lang="en" />
      </Helmet>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

In this code snippet, we're importing the AppProps type from next/app and the DefaultSeo and Helmet components from the next-seo and react-helmet packages respectively. We're also setting default SEO values for the title, description, and open graph metadata of our website, and adding a lang attribute to our html tag for SEO purposes.

Step 3: Add SEO to your pages

Finally, you'll need to add SEO to your pages using the NextSeo component from the next-seo package. Here's an example of how to add SEO to a page:

import { NextSeo } from 'next-seo';

function Home() {
  return (
    <>
      <NextSeo
        title="Home Page"
        description="This is the home page"
        openGraph={{
          type: 'website',
          url: 'https://yourwebsite.com',
          title: 'Home Page',
          description: 'This is the home page',
          images: [
            {
              url: 'https://yourwebsite.com/og-image.jpg',
              width: 1200,
              height: 630,
              alt: 'Home Page',
            },
          ],
        }}
      />
      <h1>Welcome to my website!</h1>
    </>
  );
}

export default Home;

In this code snippet, we're importing the NextSeo component from next-seo, and setting specific SEO values for the title, description, and open graph metadata of the home page. We're also rendering a h1 tag with some sample content for the page.

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