A lot of websites these days, require complete SEO optimization so they can get great rankings on search engines. Also now a lot of platforms and tools have come that allow developers to do SEO on their websites by offering different features. One such tool is the Santiy. Sanity as CMS software allows you to do headless SEO. this is a kind of SEO that needs a proper technical implementation so your content can reach out to more channels.

Sanity offers a lot of powerful APIs that you can easily integrate with different APIs. One should take advantage of this unique feature to publish the content on different platforms, localize content to different language and translate it as per the grand guidelines. In this article, we will discuss SEO best practices to follow that most of the Sanity CMS developers recommend for SEO.

Important tips to follow while doing SEO of your content through Sanity CMS development

Meta description and title

One of the best ways to add meta descriptions and titles to your content is to use the SEO object schema in Sanity which is reusable. In the SEO object, you can define two text fields, one for the title and the other one for the meta description. Moreover, there is also the facility to add the validation rule to ensure that the title and meta description is according to certain conditions.

Indexing Management

The second most important thing is to manage the pages appropriately that you want search engines like Google to index. With a proper SEO strategy, you can do that easily. It is important to have an indexing strategy that can help you to keep irrelevant URLS out of the SERPs. The headless approach gives you more freedom over what search engines should index and how should it reach your content. This is quite an advantage of Sanity over other traditional CMSs.

URL Slugs

One should note that for any on-page optimization, URL plays a critical role. The Slug is the last part of the URL. mostly it describes the page and comes after the Domain name. With the help of Sanity Studio, you can add editable URL Slugs. All you need to ensure is to write the best slug for all your web pages. You can also create your function to generate slugs for every document on your website.

Image Optimization

There are several ways by which an Image can reduce the SEO impact that can lead to bad web performance and lower rank of your website. Hence you should always try to optimize the performance of your image, by adjusting the quality and size of the image. Also, another thing you can do is the optimization of alt text and file names for each image to ensure that SEO is not affected.

Conclusion

In this article, we have covered most of the important aspects that Sanity CMS developers suggest following while doing the SEO of the website. But this is not a complete guide. You can join the official community of Sanity to discuss things with the web developers and know more ways to optimize your website.