SEO and SMO meta tags

Astro Plugins

These are the most popular plugins for the task:

astro-seo ↗: This Astro component makes it easy to add tags relevant for search engine optimization (SEO) to your pages.
@astrolib/seo ↗: Astro SEO is an integration that makes managing your SEO easier in Astro projects. It is fully based on the excellent Next SEO library.
astro-seo-meta ↗: Astro SEO provides an SEO component to update meta tags.
astro-seo-schema ↗: Easily insert valid Schema.org JSON-LD in your Astro apps.

Metadata

type: NewsArticle

Install dependencies
Terminal window
```
pnpm add schema-dts astro-seo-schema
```

Add Schema to Head

---
import Default from "@astrojs/starlight/components/Head.astro";
import { Schema } from "astro-seo-schema";
---

<Default {...Astro.props}><slot /></Default>

<Schema
  item={{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "NewsArticle",
    dateModified: Astro.locals.starlightRoute.lastUpdated?.toISOString(),
    headline: Astro.locals.starlightRoute.entry.data.title,
    author: [
      {
        "@type": "Person",
        name: "stereobooster",
        url: "https://stereobooster.com",
      },
    ],
  }}
/>

Change Astro config

export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    starlight({
      components: {
        Head: "./src/components/Head.astro",
      },
      lastUpdated: true,
    }),
  ],
});

type: Article

Try "@type":"Article" with the following elements:

<article>
<span itemprop="dateModified" content="2020-Mar-13">
<h1 itemprop="name">...</h1>
<div itemprop="articleBody">...</div>

Sites to Test Meta Tags

TODO

Plugin that places sitemap URL in robots.txt (astro-robots-txt)
Use the “updated at” date in the sitemap (so search engines would rescan those pages first)
- Maybe I can use BrainDb to generate it?