It's important for marketing to make your website more visible to search engines like Google. By default, Lovable will write the name of your project in the meta title tag. It's up to you to optimize the SEO of your apps, but you can do it straight from Lovable. Here are all the steps to improve your apps' SEO with Lovable.After creating the app after the first prompt, these are the default meta tags.
Tips: To see the code, I open the website in preview mode and look at the source code within my browser.
Meta tags are important: "title" should mirror the h1, and "description" should match the subtitle or include your top 1-3 high-traffic keywords.If the metatags you see are not ok, then do the following:To modify the title tags, ask Lovable to modify the title tags.
Prompt: My website is about saving time and money on AWS, please adjust the meta title accordingly.
Or you can also add yours directly:
Prompt: Modify the meta title tag to "Save time and money on AWS"
Pro Tip: Lovable might also modify the meta description if you don't specify to only modify the meta title.It's the same for the meta description
Prompt: My website is about saving time and money on AWS; please adjust the meta description accordingly.
Or you can also add yours directly:
Prompt: Modify the meta description tag as "The best app to save time and money on AWS. Reduce your cost fast."
Pro Tip: Add Follow SEO best practices in your prompts
If you haven't had access to the Google search console yet, I suggest you do so, create a sitemap, and submit it. A sitemap helps search engines crawl and index your site efficiently.
Prompt: Create a sitemap.xml of my project and include all available pages. Include the following links:
From there, you'll have a file that you can submit to the Google Search Console. If you add or remove any new pages, you should update your sitemap accordingly.
The URL of your sitemap.xml is https://yourwebsitename.com/sitemap.xml
A robot.txt file will help you to specify which content should be crawled or ignored by search engine. The robots.txt file is generated by default. If this is not the case, use the following prompt. Then double check the content of your file.
Prompt: Generate a robots.txt file for my site and allow all search engine.
You can also eventually test the file with the Google robots.txt testing tool in Google Search Console.
You can also start to optimize the page content. By following SEO best practices and guidelines.
Here are a few things to consider:
unique H1 tag per page.
structure content with H2 and H3 subheadings.
include keyword-rich headings where relevant.#### Internal Linking
Internal links improve site navigation and SEO.How to Add Internal Links Using Lovable
use prompts such as "Suggest internal links for this page".
add links to related content within your project.
keep anchor text descriptive and relevant.
Schema markup enhances search results with rich snippets.How to Use Schema Markup with Lovable
ask Lovable: "Generate schema markup for this page".
copy the JSON-LD code and paste it into your site.
validate using Google's Rich Results Test.### Advanced SEO Tips- optimize images by adding alt text + compress image
avoid duplicate content by ensuring that each page is unique; you can use canonical tags to prevent duplicate pages from affecting ranking
if you want to focus on some specific keywords, target long-term ones and do a specific page for it
keep your content fresh by updating old content regularly and by adding new blog posts regularlyBy default, Lovable will set you some basic SEO, but it's up to you to make it appealing to search engines. Following these simple steps will make your site ready for search engines to rank.
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