Mastering the basics of SEO in React and Next.js

[@FilipeDeschamps]

Leigh, you are awesome! I'm learning about Nextjs so much with you! And you explain things in a REALLY simple but powerful way 👍

[@leighhalliday]

Bless you Filipe! I appreciate it :)

[@pedrobrasil892]

Esse canal tem selo delicinha de qualidade 😉

[@ursochurrasqueira]

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[@abraaomoreira_]

Olha só quem está por aqui, acho que estou num bom lugar

[@MolinRJ]

cheguei aqui pra melhorar o SEO de um projeto, e tem esse comment aqui. Posso garantir que o vídeo vai ser delicinha

[@jasonwiesner2768]

Already so much value in first 3 minutes. Thank you!

[@nabilmouami6778]

Excellent content! You are a fantastic explainer.👍👍👍👍

[@samdimahmood9047]

omg WOW I needed this for my work project and your video has the most description and on point explanation regarding it. I just keep loving your videos!

[@leighhalliday]

Thank you very much Samira :)

[@maskman4821]

This is a fantastic tutorial, making nextjs project both seo and accessibility 100% is really something, this is the best tutorial that explains / demo this topic, you are the man !!!

[@leighhalliday]

Thanks so much, Stephen!!

[@urbanleung1268]

such an amazing walk-through, as a rookie without any computer sense, I fully understand the logic behind, thanks a lot

[@leighhalliday]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@urbanleung1268]

@@leighhalliday you're welcome. by any chance, please do more on SEO on nextjs and related themes. wish you the best of luck

[@diegoragone2191]

how did you convert from http-equip to httqEquiv at 8:56 ??

[@rtorcato]

Next.js isn't for server side rendering only anymore. You can create static sites with it and hybrid sites too. Gatsby can also be used for server side, but i haven't tried it. For SEO you should always setup ES lint with jsx-A11y. It will help you catch accessibility errors while you code.

[@leighhalliday]

Thanks, Richard! In a sense I view static & SSR the same way, at least to the browser or crawler... the response from the server is still pre-rendered, it's more of a matter of when that rendering takes place. Is it rendered on compile/build (static), or is it rendering upon each request (SSR). Good tips with ES lint and jsx-a11y!

[@gadgetgrader]

What about schema SEO?

[@cajogos]

Simple, but effective! Great video!

[@Luke-Norris]

Excellent content! You are a fantastic explainer, and one of my go-to instructors for any topics I'm trying to learn

[@leighhalliday]

Thanks Luke! I appreciate it :)

[@denniswayne5776]

This was awesome! Thanks!

[@priceless5386]

Enjoyed the video, I am not sure I would consider it “mastering”, but it was a very good beginner video.

[@leighhalliday]

You're right :D changed the title to be: Mastering the basics of SEO in React and Next.js. Not as catchy but more realistic! Thanks for watching!!

[@MemeFiesta102]

How do I add scheme mark-up to my next js project

[@TyoBaskara]

Do we need sitemap ? And how to generate it ?

[@leighhalliday]

I haven't done this personally, but there's a lot of good discussion about it here using api routes along with Next.js/Vercel's URL rewriting capabilities: github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/9051

[@vasileturus]

Thanks man for the video! Can't wait for more!

[@leighhalliday]

New vids every week, stay tuned!!

[@mohdsajidshaikh4291]

Please explain how to do seo of dynamic post coming from mysql in reactjs and next js

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Muhammed! It's my understanding google has 2 crawlers... one that focuses on server rendered, which happens frequently and sooner, and another one which clicks around in a headless chrome browser, for client-side apps... this happens less often, but to be honest I doubt this will be the case for long considering how many SPAs are out there. Two approaches you could take: - Do nothing... google will probably figure it out even if you load the data client-side after initial page load. - Focus on service side rendering and/or static pages (in a sense, also server-side rendered). For that you might want to watch this video which covers the new hooks in Next.js you use to perform SSR and/or build static pages: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3KlnKKcbd6asKs

[@mohdsajidshaikh4291]

@@leighhalliday thanks for fast reply.

[@christophercaldwell6641]

Is Audits a chrome extension? I don't have that tab in the dev tools

[@christophercaldwell6641]

If anyone else is as dumb as I am, this functionality is now under the "Lighthouse" tab.

[@leighhalliday]

Ahh... didn't realize they renamed it to Lighthouse either! Thanks for sharing Christopher!

[@parsasaeednia7813]

THANKS A LOTTTT!! You helped me so much!

[@nyciar]

Thanks for the video. Very easy to understand. I have wondered lately if the developer should do the SEO or hire it out to an SEO specialist. What are your thoughts on hiring out SEO help if you're building an ecommerce site? Thanks.

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Nathaniel! What we do where I work is to use an external SEO specialist to let us know what to do, in terms of content strategies and keywords, content, etc... but the developers are in charge of implementing their suggestions. I think a web developer should at least know the technical basics of SEO, even if they aren't "SEO experts".

[@vincesanchez7790]

Make more videos about SEO on Next.js with Tools and tips to maximize page SEO

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Vince! If I'm honest I don't think I have too many extra tips :D I'm not an SEO expert

[@vincesanchez7790]

@@leighhalliday This is enough already my website got 100 score on SEO after I watched your SEO on Next.js tutorial

[@motdde]

Fantastic content Leigh. What difference does it make to name your pages as .jsx? I have always used .js

[@leighhalliday]

No real difference... I think maybe some webpack configs look for one vs the other, but no difference inside of the file. I think most people just use .js now, wasn't that way a couple years ago.

[@motdde]

@@leighhalliday Thanks. Your channel 👌🏾

[@jiwachhetri4165]

Great video

[@tuananhdo1870]

FYI Audit tab is now Lighthouse

[@leighhalliday]

Thanks Tuan!!

[@rangabharath4253]

awesome as always. Thank u so much

[@leighhalliday]

You're welcome, Ranga! Glad you're enjoying these videos :)

[@georgiosgoniotakis89]

Hello Leigh. Thank you for the video. I was wondering what would be the best practice regarding using images in Next.js. Is there a specific way to handle different types or sizes of images?

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Georgios! That's a great question and honestly I'm not sure. In Gatsby you generate them all at build-time... but that's not the case here, right? If they are user generated data, I would consider something like ImgIX or Cloudinary.

[@realcirno1750]

in the future we have the Image tag

[@TheNomanAhmed]

Great video. Can't wait for the Gatsby video.

[@leighhalliday]

Thank you The Noman!! Will be ready for next week I hope :)

[@michaelpelagio9468]

how to have audit in chrome dev tools?

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Michael! I think it just comes with Chrome by default!

[@aliofmecca]

the Audits panel is now the Lighthouse panel.

[@vishaltorgal3372]

Where to add SEO keywords in page

[@leighhalliday]

You'd add it in the head tag, using Head from Next.js or Helmet in plain React

[@gabrielfono844]

Hi sir I have a serious problem now I have built an entire client software in ReactJs and spring boot Should I rebuild it in NextJs Is it any way to have a better SEO In ReactJs ? If not , is it anyway to migrate ReactJs to NextJs I am really concerned

[@onthecodeagain]

Very cool intro this! :)

[@electrotsmishar]

thank you. very helpful

[@leighhalliday]

Happy to help, thanks for saying hi!

[@adnanrruka5152]

Thank You

[@zeroph33r23]

Sir, You're Awesome

[@leighhalliday]

Thank you Zero! You are great also!

[@MiguelFernando]

This is great, thank you!!

[@leighhalliday]

You're welcome, Miguel!

[@joshualepon5676]

This video is amazing! You sound and look like Owen Wilson btw. Lmao. Also I just have a question, will the crawlers be able to read the meta tags? Because as far as I know, crawlers usually do not execute javascript, which is, I believe, a downside of React Helmet. Will the tags be rendered server-side?

[@leighhalliday]

Haha... thanks! I wish I had as much money as Owen Wilson :D Off the top of my head I am not sure if the component does SSR... I would imagine it does though... that said, there are 2 types of crawlers that google deploys. One that just reads the HTML, and gets run more often and sooner. But they have another which actually renders pages and executes javascript. So I think either way you're better off than not doing any of this, but maybe you want to look into whether the Head component's meta tags are included in the HTML produced by SSR or not.

[@joshualepon5676]

​@@leighhalliday Woah, thanks for the fast reply! I'll do just that!

[@trustlang_ua]

Thanks a lot, dude. Hello from Ukraine)

[@leighhalliday]

Hello right back at you from Canada!

[@ridl27]

ty!

[@agat1]

I need part 2 🤭

[@leighhalliday]

Me too :D Let me know what I'm missing and then I might be able to tackle it.

[@zygimantas3]

nice work, keep on going and ull reach 100k subs for sure! u could do more mobx stuff with hooks, also storybook would be nice as well.

[@leighhalliday]

Hey Zygimantas! Thank you very much... one day I'll get there, just need to keep going :) I definitely need to do some storybook... I'll add it to my list!

[@meonitelexdee3432]

you promised you will do a video on gatsby seo too ! ;) great video by the way

[@leighhalliday]

I'm still making videos, one day this video may appear :D It's on my spreadsheet of topics ;)

[@yasirnajeep]

Thanks