Robots and Sitemap

In this lesson, you will add even more for SEO. Your application deserves robots.txt and proper sitemap.

SEO#

To make your application more accessible for search engines you should provide them with the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files

Robots.txt#

Start by informing robots what they should and shouldn't traverse on your website. This helps avoid unnecessary traffic from them. Create a new file, src/robots.txt, and feed it with data:

This configuration will prevent search engine robots from visiting paths that they have no need to traverse:

  • /favorites is only available to authenticated users.

  • /login doesn't contain any content that is critical from the SEO perspective.

  • /assets is where static files reside (this doesn't mean that Google won't index images).

  • /api is where the backend API resides.

The last line is to inform robots where they should look for the sitemap of your application.

 

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