Google Lighthouse: SEO

Overview

These checks ensure that your page is optimized for search engine results ranking.

This is known as on-page SEO

This can be used in conjucition with third-party SEO analiyers that will indicate on the website is performing the search engine in whole which will be in the next course

Make sure search engines understand your content #

• Document doesn’t have a <title> element
• Document does not have a meta description
• Links do not have descriptive text
• Document doesn’t have a valid hreflang
• Document does not have a valid rel=canonical

Theses can be common problems for a website are easily fixed.

To fix the “no Title” and “no meta description” a plugin on wordpress called Yoast can be installed the meta and title tags are the information display on google search results.

They look like this in the code

And like this on the search engine

Including the meta description links and images have short description called alt tags

This can be important information for google and will show up and google images. Without these tags, your website will have a lower SEO score and not generate traffic for google Images.