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Improving SEO with the Recommendations Component

Improving SEO with the Recommendations Component

Learn how we can build a component to display a list of recommended posts.

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Interlinking plays a crucial role in enhancing SEO and boosting rankings by connecting relevant pages through links. A quick way to automate the process of interlinking is to create a list of recommendations under each post, where users can explore other related topics. In this lesson, we’ll take a look at how we can build a responsive Recommendations component in Astro and how we can reuse it in several places with other components combined.

Creating Recommendations

To get started, let’s see how we want to use the component first. According to the design, we want to display three recommended posts in a responsive manner.

Responsive design of the recommended posts
Responsive design of the recommended posts

Because the list of recommendations will be different on each page, we need this component to be configurable. Because it’s easier to remember slugs, let’s make the component capable of accepting a list of recommendations in the form of URLs.

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<Recommendations
    recommended={[
        '1st-recommended',
        '2nd-recommended',
        '3rd-recommended'
    ]}
/>

To get the relevant posts based on their slugs, we can use Astro’s collection API along with a .filter array method to only keep the posts that are passed to the recommended prop. This functionality has already been implemented in the Recommendations component in the code widget below. See how we get the correct posts in src/components/Recommendations.astro.

---
title: "Latest Astro Post Title"
description: "Description for the post"
publishDate: "2023.06.19"
heroImage: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1581500274180-6331eea8b184?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8OHx8YXN0cm98ZW58MHx8MHx8fDA%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1200&q=60"
excerpt: "Excerpt from a recommended article. Content is trimmed to a maximum of 150 characters for brevity. If the content exceeds the character limit, three dots will be displayed using JavaScript's `substring` method."
faq:
  - id: 1
    question: "Post with FAQ"
    answer: "FAQ answer"
    open: true

  - id: 2
    question: "FAQ 2nd Question"
    answer: "Answer to 2nd FAQ"
---

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Creating Recommendations

The component also accepts two other props: noMargin (line 7) and inline (line 8). These props control how the cards are displayed. These are used as conditional classes using the class:list (line 17) directive. However, ...