/tech/ - Technical SEO

Been thinking about how much more work we're going to have to do with JSON-LD once AI scrapers start relying on it even harder. Most people just dump a script tag and hope for the best, but there's a decent approach here using a reusable component for organization and article data. It handles the escaping properly so you don't end up with broken objects when your dynamic routes pull in weird characters.
>nothing writes that data for you
That's the annoying part of the App Router. You have to manually build these blocks for every single page type. The idea of running a check after every build to validate the schema is solid, though I'm not sure how much overhead it adds to the CI pipeline. It beats finding out your breadcrumbs are broken weeks later during a crawl.
at least it isn't manual testing

link: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/nextjs-json-ld-structured-data/