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title: "Search engine optimization (SEO)"
slug: "search-engine-optimization--seo-"
abstract: "SitecoreAI capabilities for optimizing search engine results by configuring the sitemap, the robots.txt file, redirects, image load."
---
# Search engine optimization (SEO)

[SitecoreAI](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/sitecoreai.html) offers several features for helping your optimize your site for search engines (SEO), so that your site can rank higher in search results and attract more visitors. We also recommend that you review and implement our suggestions using the SEO optimization recipe.

The following topics describe how to configure SitecoreAI functionality related to SEO, such as sitemaps and robots.txt files to help search crawlers index the pages on your website, or instruct search crawlers to exclude certain pages from indexing.

- [Configure a sitemap in the Content Editor](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/sitecoreai/content-modeling-and-presentation/search-engine-optimization--seo-/configure-a-sitemap-in-the-content-editor.html "Configure a sitemap in the Content Editor")
- [Enable or disable language codes in sitemap URLs](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/sitecoreai/content-modeling-and-presentation/search-engine-optimization--seo-/enable-or-disable-language-codes-in-sitemap-urls.html "Enable or disable language codes in sitemap URLs")
- [Configure the robots.txt file](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/sitecoreai/content-modeling-and-presentation/search-engine-optimization--seo-/configure-the-robots-txt-file.html "Configure the robots.txt file")
- [Configure JSON-LD schemas](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/sitecoreai/content-modeling-and-presentation/search-engine-optimization--seo-/configure-json-ld-schemas.html "Configure JSON-LD schemas")
- [Redirect URLs](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/redirect-urls.html)
- Optimize image loading - if you are using JSS, you can do this with [the NextImage component](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/jss/22/jss-sai/configuring-the-jss-nextimage-component.html).