Every LiteInk theme ships with SEO baked in. Here’s what’s included and how to tune it.

What’s Included

All themes come with:

Per-page meta titles and descriptions — Set in frontmatter or page props
Canonical URLs — Prevents duplicate content issues
Open Graph tags — Rich previews when shared on social media
Twitter/X card metadata — Optimized link previews
JSON-LD structured data — Helps search engines understand your content
XML sitemap — Auto-generated by @astrojs/sitemap
robots.txt — Controls crawler access
Semantic HTML — Proper heading hierarchy, landmarks, alt text

Setting Page Metadata

Each page sets its title and description via layout props:

---
import Base from '../layouts/Base.astro';
---
<Base title="About Us — My Company" description="Learn about our team and mission.">
  <h1>About Us</h1>
</Base>

For content collection pages (blog posts), set these in frontmatter:

---
title: How We Built Our Product
description: A behind-the-scenes look at our process.
---

Setting Your Domain

The site option in astro.config.mjs is critical — it generates canonical URLs and sitemap entries:

export default defineConfig({
  site: 'https://yoursite.com',
  output: 'static',
});

Set this before deploying. Wrong domain = broken canonical URLs.

Open Graph Images

Social previews use Open Graph images. Set the og:image in your layout or per page:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://yoursite.com/img/og.png" />

Recommended size: 1200 × 630 pixels. Place your OG image in public/img/og.png.

Submitting to Search Engines

After deploying:

Google Search Console — Go to search.google.com/search-console, add your property, and submit your sitemap URL (https://yoursite.com/sitemap-index.xml)
Bing Webmaster Tools — Go to bing.com/webmasters, add your site, and submit the same sitemap
IndexNow (optional) — For faster indexing, ping search engines when you publish new content

SEO Checklist

site in astro.config.mjs matches your domain
Every page has a unique title and description
Sitemap is accessible at /sitemap-index.xml
robots.txt is not blocking important pages
Images have descriptive alt attributes
OG image exists and renders correctly
Submitted sitemap to Google Search Console

What’s Next?

FAQ — Common questions

SEO Guide