Chapter 6: Improving Your Site's Search Engine Optimization
In this chapter, you will learn about how search engine optimization (SEO) works, what search engines look for within your site pages, and how to improve your site's presence on the web. We will also dive into other uses of metadata to make visually enticing social share previews for your site. By the end of this chapter, you will have created a reusable SEO component to provide meta information on every page. We will also create a sitemap to make it easier for search engines to understand our site. Finally, we will also learn how to stop our site from appearing in search engines if you would rather not have it publicly visible.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing SEO
- Creating an SEO component
- Exploring meta previews
- Learning about XML sitemaps
- Hiding your site from search engines
