v2 RC to v2 Stable

Introduction

This guide will help you migrate from the Nuxt SEO v2 RC to the v2 stable release.

Please see the announcement post for details on the release.

Support

If you get stuck with the migration or have post-migration bugs, please get in touch!

• Jump in the Discord
• Make a GitHub issue

Nuxt Site Config v3

Nuxt Site Config is a module used internally by Nuxt Robots.

The major update to v3.0.0 shouldn't have any direct effect on your site, however, you may want to double-check the breaking changes.

Nuxt SEO Utils v6

In moving to the stable release, Nuxt SEO experiments has been renamed from nuxt-seo-experiments to nuxt-seo-utils.

The original name of the module was nuxt-seo-experiments, hinting that the features weren't stable and that they would land in the Nuxt core. This is no longer the case, and the module has been renamed to reflect this.

With this rename the module scope changes to include the random functionality that Nuxt SEO was previously providing:

• useBreadcrumbItems() composable
• Config: redirectToCanonicalSiteUrl
• Config: fallbackTitle
• Config: automaticDefaults

As Nuxt SEO Utils shared the same config key as the Nuxt SEO module, no changes are required to your config, however, it's worth testing your site to ensure that everything is working as expected.

Nuxt Sitemap v7

Removed inferStaticPagesAsRoutes config

If you set this value to false previously, you will need to change it to the below:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  sitemap: {
-      inferStaticPagesAsRoutes: false,
+      excludeAppSources: ['pages', 'route-rules', 'prerender']
  }
})

Removed dynamicUrlsApiEndpoint config

The sources config supports multiple API endpoints and allows you to provide custom fetch options, use this instead.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  sitemap: {
-      dynamicUrlsApiEndpoint: '/__sitemap/urls',
+      sources: ['/__sitemap/urls']
  }
})

Removed cacheTtl config

Please use the cacheMaxAgeSeconds as its a clearer config.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  sitemap: {
-      cacheTtl: 10000,
+      cacheMaxAgeSeconds: 10000
  }
})

Removed index route rule / Nuxt Content support

If you were using the index: false in either route rules or your Nuxt Content markdown files, you will need to update this to use the robots key.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  routeRules: {
    // use the `index` shortcut for simple rules
-    '/secret/**': { index: false },
+    '/secret/**': { robots: false },
  }
})

Nuxt Robots v5

Removed rules config

The v4 of Nuxt Robots provided a backward compatibility rules config. As it was deprecated, this is no longer supported. If you're using rules, you should migrate to the groups config or use a robots.txt file.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
-      rules: {},
+      groups: {}
  }
})

Removed defineRobotMeta composable

This composable didn't do anything in v4 as the robots meta tag is enabled by default. If you'd like to control the robot meta tag rule, use the useRobotsRule() composable.

- defineRobotMeta(true)
+ useRobotsRule(true)

Removed RobotMeta component

This component was a simple wrapper for defineRobotMeta, you should use useRobotsRule() if you wish to control the robots rule.

Removed index, indexable config

When configuring robots using route rules or Nuxt Content you could control the robot's behavior by providing index or indexable rules.

These are no longer supported and you should use robots key.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  routeRules: {
    // use the `index` shortcut for simple rules
-    '/secret/**': { index: false },
+    '/secret/**': { robots: false },
  }
})

Features

Config blockAiBots

AI crawlers can be beneficial as they can help users finding your site, but for some educational sites or those not interested in being indexed by AI crawlers, you can block them using the blockAIBots option.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
    blockAiBots: true
  }
})

This will block the following AI crawlers: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, ImagesiftBot, PerplexityBot, OmigiliBot, Omigili