Adding all the meta data

Why Bother with SEO?

This blog is a place for my own personal exploration into tech and learning. However, after reading [an article about learning in public][https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/]I’ve started to share a bit more. Thinking about sharing I realized that if no-one can find this it’s not very public!

What is SEO?

SEO is “Search Engine Optimization”, I’m going to focus on a few areas of it. I don’t really need to be the best blog in the world for all the things but I’d like to at least get the following working

Keywords to search algorithms
A Twitter Card
OpenGraph Card
robots.txt
sitemap.xml

Where to keep the meta data

Svelte inserts the <svelte:head /> from each component into the proper place. I’ll be focusing on blog articles for now so I’m editing the [slug].svelte file.

<svelte:head>
  <title>{post.title}</title>
</svelte:head>

This is how things start. Lets add a bit more basic data

<svelte:head>
  <title>{post.title}</title>
</svelte:head>

With just a couple of lines things will already be better

<svelte:head>
  <title>{post.title}</title>
  <meta name="description" content="{post.description}" />
  <meta name="keywords" content="{post.tags}" />
</svelte:head>