Nextjs SEO and Google Rank advice...
Hi guys, so I'm trying to learn how the Google Rank work.
I'm working on a big ecommerce site, and we're moving some pages to Nextjs because better SEO and speed with SSR and RSC.
The point it's that i hear some people saying that having good SEO it's only needed for the landing page, while i been reading others that said that all public pages, at least the most used, need to have a good SEO because that impact on your website Google Rank.
What do you guys think? Anyone work on a big projects that need SEO for organic traffic or know well this topic, that can answer me this question.
Some resources to learn about this? I'm trying to have arguments to present it to my boss.
Thanks.
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The point it's that i hear some people saying that having good SEO it's only needed for the landing page, while i been reading others that said that all public pages, at least the most used, need to have a good SEO because that impact on your website Google Rank.Your whole page needs to be a good experience not just landing page https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-answeroverflow-com/632vgnpce9?form_factor=mobile <— this is the most important tool which is page speed insights, the real experience score for "origin" matters a lot. Lighthouse doesn’t matter at all for SEO For context I develop answeroverflow.com and we went through this - it’s a NextJS site and after we improved response times and reduced bundle size we got a huge bump in traffic I’ll see if I can find the data but it looks like it’s passed the period of being able to see an improvement
Thanks. We're doing a big rewrite because SEO, but i need to find proves or something to show my boss that all public pages need good SEO and performance.
For example, we have a public page that's a form to find an order status without login, i want to make that form fully performant, but my boss think only landing page need good SEO and performance, so he think not worthy.
What do you recommend?
If its fully SEO project, just do it with Astro, will be much easier
or just split it
order status page usually is not indexable and should not be SEO performant
Why would it need to be found in Google?
If it's on the same domain (not subdomain) it'll need to be performant
I had a route with 5s response times that wasn't meant to be on Google, it tanked my SEO performance and the moment I fixed that route it shot up my performance in Google
I think you are mixing up seo, with general page speed/performance
I'm not, this is from my actual experience w/ running an SEO focused website
One bad route tanks your performance in Google
One likely thing I think of is that it damaged your domain crawl budget
if you want pages to be indexed
maybe reduce non essential components(components that don't have kw's) on page, and create page faster upon request
Saw IBM reducing their page count from 1.2m~ to 800k improved their general SEO positions greatly, but thats it. SEO specialists cant explain reason why ranks rose
Please, just help me with the question, I don't need a framework battle.
you need good seo for all of the public pages
optimizing keywords for each public page, reflecting the search intent
There is a lot of work to do good SEO, because it has to be good on each page
For example lets say, person is googling: "Good keyboards"
Your website might be all about the tech, but you need to rank well in keyboards
so some other pages are responsible for keyboard kw's
This is a really big and successful ecommerce, we have the project right now in Django + React, we need improve our SEO and Google Rank because we need more organic traffic to the website. We're currently on a rewrite with Nextjs 14 app router, we have found no problem or reason to change.
Thanks!!!
to explain it simply why you need it in all pages:
And what it's the impact of a bad page, no server rendered, with bad performance on the rest of the site?
Google focused on "Topical Authority", which means you may be really high in "mouse", but if you need "keyboard". You will not rank in it, you will have to start all seo work for each new topic
Actually there was really good video recently, but it might be too complex if you don't know much
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Thanks, this helps me so much. I would take a look and learn.
I think I have pretty much the same question. I've been building a web app for the K-8 school I teach at which I hope to sell to other schools too. I'm using React (my first major React project!) without much thought for SEO. Would a good strategy be to put the app at app.example.com and make a separate next.js project for the landing/about/documentation/sales pages and put that on example.com?