Reference

SEO Checklist

Production SEO defaults and verification tasks for a new docs launch.

seometadataverification

SEO Checklist

Required configuration

  • Set NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL to your production docs domain.
  • Confirm metadataBase resolves to that domain.
  • Ensure each doc page has canonical metadata.

Included by default

  • Global metadata in src/app/layout.tsx.
  • Per-page metadata in src/app/docs/[[...slug]]/page.tsx.
  • robots.txt route at src/app/robots.ts.
  • sitemap.xml route at src/app/sitemap.ts.

Optional verification tokens

Set these if needed:

  • GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION
  • BING_SITE_VERIFICATION

Post-deploy checks

  1. Open /robots.txt and verify sitemap URL.
  2. Open /sitemap.xml and verify canonical domain.
  3. Inspect page source for canonical, Open Graph, and Twitter tags.

Updated 2026-04-19