The most popular WordPress SEO plugin with 5+ million active installations. Learn how to replace Yoast SEO with modern, built-in SEO solutions in Next.js and Astro.
Yoast SEO adds bloat to WordPress, creates database overhead, and many of its features are now built into modern frameworks.
Next.js has built-in metadata generation that covers all of Yoast's core functionality.
Use generateMetadata() in your page components to define titles, descriptions, and Open Graph data.
A popular library that provides a simple way to manage SEO in Next.js applications.
npm install next-seo and wrap your pages with NextSeo component.
Export your Yoast SEO data using the WordPress REST API
Create a metadata utility function in your Next.js project
Map Yoast fields to Next.js Metadata API
Set up JSON-LD schema for rich snippets
Configure open graph and twitter card defaults
Test with Google Rich Results test
// lib/seo.ts
import { Metadata } from 'next';
export function generateSEO({
title,
description,
image,
url
}: SEOProps): Metadata {
return {
title,
description,
openGraph: {
title,
description,
images: [{ url: image }],
url,
},
twitter: {
card: 'summary_large_image',
title,
description,
images: [image],
},
};
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