SEO in Next.js 14 - The Ultimate Guide (Metadata, Sitemap, Robots, Google Search Console, Caching)

In this tutorial, you will learn everything you need to know about SEO (search engine optimization) in Next.js and the app router.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro & prerequisites
2:28 - Static metadata, title template, favicon, opengraph-image, next/Font, next/Image
18:24 - Dynamic metadata (generateMetadata), React cache
28:38 - Static rendering & caching, generateStaticParams, notFound
40:48 - Server components (SSR) vs client components (CSR)
43:35 - Dynamic sitemap (sitemap.ts)
50:42 - Robots.txt & robots meta tag
55:59 - Google Search Console & Vercel Analytics connection

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[@codinginflow]

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[@codingwithlucy]

Your explanation is so clear, thank you!

[@sirbacharach1]

What a fantastic video, I've been struggling with SEO with React and Next.js as I'm new to web development, but this video has been such a great help, even the icon and the opengraph image has been helpful

[@aminahb4307]

Absolutely fantastic walk through! Thank you!

[@codinginflow]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@realstoman]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@TheLarynx]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@pamphilemkp]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial, you deserve my subscription I hope many more people find this channel, I have been trying to understand how to add the metadata in nextjs, I have read the official doc and watch a couple of videos on some channels I could not find any relevant content like, thank you for the hard work for the dev community I am so happy because I have been able to solve many issues after watching this tutorial and also understand may SEO concepts. keep up the good work.

[@codinginflow]

Thank you for the kind words 😊 Glad you liked it

[@JosephOpio]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@JosephOpio]

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[@panwar9848]

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[@kamrant8915]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@juanspada4852]

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[@HousseynBelhadja]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@Marc-fj3kd]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@tiavina-mika]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@alvin3171997]

Supern tutorial! All things SEO related are answered.

[@codinginflow]

Glad you liked it 👌

[@alvin3171997]

@@codinginflow I think one thing that is not covered is scheme markup for each dynamic product pages

[@veggtips.shorts]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@codinginflow]

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[@radshodam]

great tutorial 🍻

[@codinginflow]

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[@RFbcc]

Wow a new t-shirt and a wireless earpiece 😀, Great video as always , Arigato my sensei !

[@codinginflow]

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[@BBocho]

Thank you very much!

[@codinginflow]

You're welcome!

[@lightoflifegames7227]

thank you very muchm very useful and enjoyed watching

[@codinginflow]

My pleasure!

[@MichaelShingo]

thank you this is a goldmine of info

[@codinginflow]

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[@paschalkings8184]

this is awesome.

[@codinginflow]

Thank you!

[@sulaimandev]

Thank you :)

[@CharlesAE]

Very in depth vid , could you do one on integrating Google AdSense into Next14?

[@ChusenOne]

Great video! Helped me a lot improving the SEO for a project I was working on. One quesion though: I found that vercel's analytics tool gets blocked by most adblockers and on their documentation doesn't mention much or anything about it. Do you know a work around this?

[@lmlTimolml]

Hey! Great stuff! One question though, I have a project that uses next-intl to serve different locales, how can I pass the locale variable to the dynamically generated sitemap so it will take into account which locale to map?

[@preisner528]

thank you!

[@hbela1000]

outstanding,thx.

[@codinginflow]

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[@spurgeongnanprakasham]

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[@tejasyoutuber]

Do you know how to resolve the data dump in the content type of text/x-component on the UI. I am using aws cloud front as cdn

[@canra245]

thank you🙏

[@avigdev]

greet. i loved it

[@davidlintin]

Great tutorial!! So much info. One question. How would we create a site map with internationalization also how to generate the seo metadata based on the lang param ? ✌🏻

[@asifuzzamanbappy1297]

another question, if i may.... can i use disallow props in robots.ts file with some wild cards in them?(i.e. disallow: ["/author/*/list", "/groups/name/*"]) thanks and happy coding :)

[@EmanuelCovelli]

Hello do you know why con cloudflare pages on dynamic routes I have to use export const runtime = 'edge'; so even if I use generateStaticParams the pages will be note served with SSG but dynamically ? Thanks very much for this video!

[@SMarGwanS]

Hey, thank you for anamazing video. I wanted to ask in case I have [locale] folder, where should my sitemap file go and how should it look to support different locales?

[@maxilkiv]

15:11 - I think there's a feature in VS Code which allows you to forward localhost, it's called port forwarding

[@codinginflow]

Right, I forgot about this. I think it's new.

[@athardavid]

Beautiful

[@codinginflow]

Thank you

[@albertoenriquez2440]

This is what I was looking for. Thanks. I still have an error in GSC that says "page with redirect", but I think its a google thing more than my code...

[@ste9890]

Excellent run-through, thanks for this! The tip to convert the blog post to SSG is great, but my blog index is also dynamic at the moment - I think because I'm using search params for pagination. Is there a way I can make the index (or at least the first page) static as well?

[@codinginflow]

I think it's fine for this section to be dynamic because it doesn't show up much in Google. However, you can move your page number into a URL path param ("/blog/1") and this way cache them too.

[@ste9890]

@@codinginflow Thanks for the quick response, appreciate it!

[@ElijahScott10x]

This video is a Godsend. The docs sucks compare to your video. I appreciate it.

[@codinginflow]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@younesessaadani9303]

Great video, I have one question if i'm using vercel with the free domain that vercel provide. How can i verify the domain when using google search

[@codinginflow]

I think you can't because you don't have access to the DNS settings

[@younesessaadani9303]

@@codinginflow Yeah that's one, thank you ❤️

[@RFbcc]

Hi Florian , why is it that the previous notes ai tutorial and the ecommerce tutorial after running "npm run build" all the pages are shown with lambda as dynamically rendered ? Thanks !

[@codinginflow]

In both cases, it's because of authentication. We get the current user server-side on each page which requires dynamic rendering. In the notes app, we don't care about static rendering because we don't have any public pages. In the e-commerce app, static rendering for product pages would be great. But I think this would require us to handle auth client-side.

[@RFbcc]

@@codinginflow thanks for the clarification, I was going through your tutorial right at this moment :)

[@TikTokTrendsCompilation]

Just what i needed to learn, great tutorial! thank you

[@codinginflow]

You're welcome!

Thanks so much for that video. It has clarified me a bunch of things. 🙂 May I ask one question? If I fetch data from a server component and I need to render it in a deep nested component how I would do that? If I place the data in the Context API (use client) I lose all the server features but I also do not want to drill it down so many levels. Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

[@codinginflow]

I would fetch it in the lowest server component and then just pass it as a prop

@@codinginflow I really appreciate your insight. 🏆So as I suspected either or another, not a third choice then. Your approach makes sense since passing props down is better than losing the SSR feature. 🥇🔥

[@codinginflow]

​@ Yea I think that's the right way

[@sohrabkhan101]

I have encountered an issue where my Open Graph images are no longer appearing when I share my page. Interestingly when I view source in chrome, the images are present in the HTML code. After spending few hours I realize that open graph image is not public. Do you know how do i fix this

[@ITRebels]

awesome

[@yusuftezel9273]

Nice video, thanks a lot. Is keyword not important, i am just newbie for SEO and want to know if there is anything that is not mentioned in this video (the first thing that comes in my mind is keywords). Again thanks for this video.

[@apitelrgramapitry7609]

Thanks for this awesome guide. and how to make sitelink on google search?

[@monahewidy3748]

thank you

[@aymenbachiri-yh2hd]

THank You

[@ashfaquemamdu4582]

This has helped me a lot. i have one doubt regarding sitemap generation. for one of our project we are using next js 14 app router and currently our site is completely static we are using export to build to static site. I am not able to generate dynamic sitemaps can any one help me with this or provide some resources which will help me . that will be a great help thanks

[@asifuzzamanbappy1297]

hello, awesome content, really appreciated it, a question, if i may......... how about if we have to fetch data from "internal api" (i.e. localhost:3000/api) endpoints, during "npm run build" it seems to throw error saying "fetch failed" is there any work around it? thanks and happy coding :)

[@codinginflow]

Don't fetch from a route handler in your server components. You can access the DB directly.

[@asifuzzamanbappy1297]

thanks a lot :) , thats exactly what i did, just wanted to be sure if thats correct way of doing it or not, much appreciated ♥ @@codinginflow

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[@harveyezihe]

i'm not sure if it's just me, but the form to subscribe to the newsletter doesn't show up on chrome, but it did on edge. Maybe it's one of my numerous addons mistakenly blocking it perhaps.

[@codinginflow]

Thanks for letting me know. The form is loaded from a third-party provider so I guess something in your browser is blocking it.

[@knuseski]

About caching: What if the content changes? Will 31st know that there is new content and invalidate the cache, or it will render outdated data ?

[@codinginflow]

Either build the project again or look into incremental static regeneration

[@szerkan778]

So If I have for example 300 elements and I am searching by Id I should generateStaticParams?

[@szerkan778]

Okey you said in 37 min about that, but what do you recommend if the app has at least 300 records. What should I do? 🙄

[@HigherStudyAspirant]

Thank you , I have a page where list of products are shown. I am getting SEO related data from API, the main page has SEO like title, author, but in addition, for each product, they have separate SEO, so how can I return those in generateMetadata as it has only one return and I am already returning the page SEO (i-e title, author), but how to return list for each product where product related SEO is keyword, description, etc

[@codinginflow]

You do that on he product details page

[@HigherStudyAspirant]

thanks, but I also want to do SEO of each product on main page instead of product-detail page, is there any way @@codinginflow

[@nathanodonnell2409]

How do you deal with too many results? I have a listing page with 100k listings, sitemaps are limited to 50k or so

[@Beast80K]

*Respected Sir,* I'm experiencing a weird problem with API route handlers, my API route gets data from external API (locally hosted using mockoon tool), I'm using *{ next: { revalidate: 60} }* to get fresh data after 60 seconds & also *'force-dynamic'* to prevent it from becoming static during build. External API returns errors like 404, 429, 503 but API route handler responds with cached data & never returns a error, even other errors caught in catch block are ignored. Any suggestions ?

[@AliEbadi-99]

thank u

[@codinginflow]

You're welcome!

[@mihirsharma3857]

How to add script tag in head tag? Can you please help me. Thanks in advance.

[@codinginflow]

With next/Script. You use it with an uppercase S:

[@canra245]

i really confuse, how to verify the DNS google search console in vercel :/

[@parthibanramachandran2878]

I can't export out folder my nextjs 14 application with nextauth, If have faced this issue please hepl me

[@iammtw]

Can you please add the microdata in next js?

[@user-jf6co4ph4i]

please make a detailed video on API creation using NEXT Js

[@codinginflow]

What exactly do you want to learn?

[@user-jf6co4ph4i]

@@codinginflow I dont want to learn express and other stuff, i just want to learn API creations and JWT etc using NEXT JS Only, Please make a detailed video on this, Hope this is Your Next Video🙏🙏

[@kualta]

thank you sweetheart

[@turjoysaha4991]

Google not accepting sitemap. What to do?

[@Moonday475]

I've been following you for a long time. I hope you talk about Gaza you are famous and your voice is heard

[@LeAmbrosioFiadone]

Hola Amigo

[@codinginflow]

Hola

[@rishiraj2548]

👍🙏

[@doguarunbayraktar]

Beautiful tutorial, but I don’t think you have mentioned about keywords.

[@codinginflow]

Keywords are related to the content. This tutorial covers the technical parts.

[@salmaahmed2171]

the favicon doesn't change

[@salmaahmed2171]

oh well, to solve this, just rename the favicon.ico to icon.ico

[@codinginflow]

I think it's cached. Wait for a bit.

[@salmaahmed2171]

@@codinginflow I solved the problem by changing the name of "favicon.ico" to "icon.ico"

[@Chernov1984]

+

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

WHat's the first word u said? Kodachima? What does it mean?Is it german?

[@codinginflow]

Konichiwa, it means "hello" in Japanese

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

@@codinginflow cool

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

@@codinginflow Anime fan, huh?

[@codinginflow]

​@@gofudgeyourselves9024 Nah. I just use a greeting in a different language in every video.

[@AliEbadi-99]

thank u

[@codinginflow]

You're welcome!