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Andres Z
Andres Z

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Turned my Next.js blog SEO process into a simple publish checklist

I don't know much about SEO practices, just the basics. That said, I’ve been cleaning up the SEO on my personal blog (Next.js App Router + markdown) and realized I was doing the same mental checklist every time I hit “publish”… so I wrote it down.

It’s very practical stuff, like:

  • title + description quality
  • canonical URL checks
  • internal links
  • running validations (yarn validate:content, yarn validate:seo, yarn build)
  • indexing and measuring results

Here’s the checklist if it helps anyone:
https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-publishing-checklist

I'm curious if I'm missing something and what you guys use as their release/publish checklist—always looking to steal good ideas. 🙃

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Ned C

Having yarn validate:seo as a build step is smart. I always forget to check canonical URLs until Google Search Console yells at me weeks later.

One thing I'd add: check your OpenGraph image renders correctly. A lot of Next.js blogs generate OG images dynamically and they can break silently. I use the social preview tools in LinkedIn/Twitter inspectors before publishing now.