How to Set Up SEO for a Lovable Project
Titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, Open Graph and structured data — the technical SEO baseline every project needs.
Published 24 Aug 2026 · Tested with Lovable as of 24 Aug 2026
Overview
Technical SEO is mostly plumbing: unique titles and descriptions per page, canonical URLs, social preview tags, a sitemap and structured data.
Beginner explanation: If every page has the same title, search engines cannot tell them apart and neither can people scanning results.
Technical explanation: Set metadata per route, not globally. Add Article, FAQ and Breadcrumb structured data where it genuinely matches the page content.
Steps
- Give every page a unique title under 60 characters and a description under 160.
- Add Open Graph and Twitter tags for social previews.
- Add canonical URLs.
- Generate a sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- Add structured data that matches the page type.
:::tip One H1 per page, and make it describe what the page is actually about — not your brand name. :::
What to check afterwards
- Every page has a distinct title in the browser tab
- Sharing a link shows the right preview
- The sitemap lists real, live URLs
- Structured data validates
Common problems
- One shared title across the site.
- Structured data that does not match the visible content. That can be penalised.
- A sitemap containing draft or 404 URLs.
Where people get stuck
If you have followed the steps and the result still is not right, the fastest path is usually to describe the exact behaviour you expected, the behaviour you got, and any error text, then ask for a fix in one focused follow-up prompt. If that loop is not converging, hand it over.
