Everything You Need to Know About Next.js Metadata API.

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Everything You Need to Know About Next.js Metadata API

Understanding Next.js Metadata API for Better SEO.

SEO is the most important key to success for every website. With SEO, you can rank your website higher on search engines.

As a Next.js developer, you must know about the Next.js Metadata API. The Metadata API defines your application metadata (e.g., title, description, and other metadata fields) inside your HTML head element to improve your website's SEO and web shareability.

In simple terms, Meta elements are tags used in HTML language to provide structured information or relevant information about a Web page in a head section. Multiple meta-elements with different attributes can be used on the same page to describe the information.

In this tutorial, I teach you about Nextjs Metadata API with examples. There are two ways you can add metadata to your application:

1. Static Metadata
2. Dynamic Metadata

Static Metadata

Static Metadata is an export as a metadata object from your layout.js and page.js files. It is static data that we never change.

// app/page.tsx

import type { Metadata } from 'next'
 
export const metadata…