Learn to build search-engine-optimized Next.js applications from the ground up. Master metadata, structured data, technical SEO, and Core Web Vitals. Understand how Google crawls and indexes your pages, and implement best practices that drive organic traffic.
Building a Next.js application is only half the job. Getting Google to find it, understand it, and rank it for the right searches requires a completely different skill set, and that is exactly what this free course teaches. Starting from how search engines crawl and index pages, you will work through every layer of SEO that a Next.js developer needs to know: writing static and dynamic metadata, generating Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, implementing JSON-LD structured data for rich results, configuring sitemaps and robots.txt, and managing canonical URLs and redirects.
The course then goes deeper into the performance side of SEO. You will learn what Core Web Vitals actually measure, why Google uses them as a ranking signal, and how to reduce LCP, CLS, and INP inside a Next.js project specifically. The final module covers internationalization SEO for multi-language apps, setting up monitoring and analytics to track your gains, and a practical walkthrough of the most common SEO mistakes developers make so you can avoid them from the start.
This is an intermediate course suited to developers who already write Next.js code and want to ship applications that attract organic traffic rather than sitting unseen. No prior SEO knowledge is assumed, but basic React and Next.js familiarity is expected. The course is completely free, and passing the final exam earns a certificate of completion you can share on LinkedIn or add to your resume.
8 modules • 20 lessons
The course covers the full technical SEO stack for Next.js developers: metadata and Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, sitemaps, robots.txt, canonical URLs, Core Web Vitals optimization (LCP, CLS, INP), internationalization SEO, and monitoring with analytics. Every topic is taught in the context of real Next.js features rather than generic web theory.
Yes, the course is completely free and requires no signup to start watching. If you complete all the lessons and pass the final exam, you receive a certificate of completion that you can add to your LinkedIn profile or resume.
No prior SEO knowledge is required. The course opens with a dedicated module on search-engine fundamentals and the developer mindset for SEO, so you will build the conceptual foundation before diving into Next.js-specific implementation. You do need working familiarity with React and Next.js basics.
The course works with the App Router, covering the built-in Metadata API for static metadata, the generateMetadata function for dynamic routes, and Next.js sitemap generation. It also covers JSON-LD script injection for structured data and performance patterns specific to Next.js image handling and rendering strategies.
Every lesson is grounded in Next.js code rather than CMS settings or plugin menus. You learn to write the actual files and functions, from robots.txt configuration to JSON-LD schema types to Core Web Vitals fixes, inside a Next.js project. There is also a full module on common SEO mistakes that are specific to how developers build and deploy Next.js apps.
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