Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is crucial for increasing visibility and improving the ranking of your website on search engine results pages. This guide will walk you through some strategies to optimize your Jekyll website for SEO.

1. Utilize the jekyll-seo-tag plugin

The jekyll-seo-tag plugin adds metadata tags for search engines and social networks to better index and display your site’s content.

Installation

To install the plugin, add gem 'jekyll-seo-tag' to your Gemfile. Then, include the following in your _config.yml file:

plugins:
  - jekyll-seo-tag

2. Implement the jekyll-sitemap plugin

The jekyll-sitemap plugin creates a sitemap for your Jekyll site which helps search engines to index your webpages more efficiently.

To use this plugin, add gem 'jekyll-sitemap' to your Gemfile and include the following in your _config.yml file:

plugins:
  - jekyll-sitemap

3. Create a robots.txt file

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can’t request from your site. It’s important to allow all pages for search robots to search and specify the location of your sitemap. Here’s an example:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://dss99911.github.io/sitemap.xml

4. Site Verification

Site verification allows search engines to confirm that you’re the owner of the website. This can be done through various search engine consoles.

Google Site Verification

If you’ve already integrated Google Analytics, you can simply register your domain on the Google Search Console. If not, you’ll need to follow the steps provided by Google to verify your site. Once registered, request indexing for faster indexing.

You can verify your site with Naver at their Search Advisor Console.

Bing Site Verification

Bing allows you to use your Google site verification data, so there’s no need to verify again. You can do this at the Bing Webmaster Tools. After registration, request indexing for faster indexing.

5. Meta Tags

Meta tags provide metadata about your webpage and are used by search engines to understand the content of your pages. You can add the following to your _config.yml file:

  • title
  • tagline: A short description of your site.
  • description: A longer description of your site. If no description is provided on a page, this site.description is used.
  • locale: The locale of your site.

For each page’s front matter, you can add:

  • title
  • description: For search engine results, it’s recommended to keep this under 160 characters.
  • locale: If the locale is different from site.locale.

6. Content

Ensure you use header tags properly and avoid overusing them. Also, make sure your URLs are user-friendly and easy to read.

7. AI Created Text

https://ai-detector.net/ https://www.scribbr.com/ai-detector/

References