Astro Accelerator intends to be kind to search engines.
A big thank you to the SEO community, especially Petr Vinklarek, for their knowledge.
Canonical URLs
We hint the canonical URL for pages to search engines using the <link rel="canonical" ../> tag.
Address Normalization
All component and layout links are passed through URL normalization, to ensure the trailing / is included.
Structured Data
Breadcrumbs contain structured data.
Open Graph Tags
Open Graph tags are included for social sharing.
Redirects
You can create a redirect by adding a markdown file with the following content:
---
layout: src/layouts/Redirect.astro
title: Redirect
redirect: /articles/feed.xml
navMenu: false
pubDate: 2022-09-17
---
<div>
Our article feed can be found <a href="/articles/feed.xml">here</a>
</div>
It uses the Redirect.astro layout to perform a meta-redirect to the location of your choice, including external addresses if required.
The above examples is in /pages/feed.md and redirects requests from www.example.com/feed to www.example.com/articles/feed.xml.
The content of this file is optional, as browsers typically respect the meta tag redirect and immediately send the user to the correct location.
You might implement a strategy where instead of renaming a page, you move the content to the new page and turn the existing page into a redirect, to avoid trapping users on a 404 page if they have the old address or follow an old back link.