SEO with Gatsby
Gatsby helps your site place better in search engines. Some advantages come out of the box and some require configuration.
Server rendering
Because Gatsby pages are server-rendered, all the page content is available to Google and other search engines or crawlers.
You can see this by viewing the source for this page with curl
(in your terminal):
curl https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/seo
Right-Click => View source
won’t show you the actual HTML (but the pages are still server-rendered!) as this site is using service workers. Read these notes to learn more.
Speed boost
Gatsby’s many built-in performance optimizations, such as rendering to static files, progressive image loading, and the PRPL pattern—all help your site be lightning-fast by default.
Starting in January 2018, Google rewards faster sites with a bump in search rankings.
Page metadata
Adding metadata to pages, such as page title and description, helps search engines understand your content and when to show your pages in search results.
A common way to add metadata to pages is to add react-helmet components (together with the Gatsby React Helmet plugin for SSR support) to your page components.
Some examples using react-helmet:
- Official GatsbyJS.org site
- Official GatsbyJS default starter
- Gatsby Mail
- Jason Lengstorf’s personal blog
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