Similarly to what we offer with responsive images, our GraphQL API also offers a way to fetch pre-computed SEO meta tags based on the content you insert inside DatoCMS.
You can easily use this information inside your React app with the help of:
A document <head>
manager for React such as react-helmet
Our react-datocms
package.
Here's a sample of the meta tags you can automatically generate:
<title>DatoCMS Blog - DatoCMS</title><meta property="og:title" content="DatoCMS Blog" /><meta name="twitter:title" content="DatoCMS Blog" /><meta name="description" content="Lorem ipsum..." /><meta property="og:description" content="Lorem ipsum..." /><meta name="twitter:description" content="Lorem ipsum..." /><meta property="og:image" content="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." /><meta property="og:image:width" content="2482" /><meta property="og:image:height" content="1572" /><meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." /><meta property="og:locale" content="en" /><meta property="og:type" content="website" /><meta property="og:site_name" content="DatoCMS" /><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2020-03-06T15:07:14Z" /><meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /><meta name="twitter:site" content="@datocms" /><link sizes="16x16" type="image/png" rel="icon" href="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." /><link sizes="32x32" type="image/png" rel="icon" href="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." /><link sizes="96x96" type="image/png" rel="icon" href="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." /><link sizes="192x192" type="image/png" rel="icon" href="https://www.datocms-assets.com/..." />
To do that, first install both react-helmet
and the react-datocms
package:
yarn add react-helmet react-datocms
Then, inside your page, feed content coming from a faviconMetaTags
or _seoMetaTags
query directly into the renderMetaTags
function:
import React from "react";import { useQuery } from "graphql-hooks";import { renderMetaTags } from "react-datocms";import { Helmet } from "react-helmet";import "./App.css";const HOMEPAGE_QUERY = `{site: _site {favicon: faviconMetaTags {attributescontenttag}}blog {seo: _seoMetaTags {attributescontenttag}}}`;function App() {const { loading, error, data } = useQuery(HOMEPAGE_QUERY);if (loading) return "Loading...";if (error) return "Something Bad Happened";return (<div className="App"><Helmet>{renderMetaTags(data.blog.seo.concat(data.site.favicon))}</Helmet>{/* ... */}</div>);}export default App;
Want to know more about SEO customization in DatoCMS? Check out this video tutorial: