It's important that users can be able to find easily a public product or a help doc on Google search engine.

​ Overview

Thanks to the following features, your GitBook projects are SEO-friendly, with little or no configuration on your end:

• ​ Custom domains (e.g: docs.example.com)

• ​ All public content is cached and served via our global CDN

• ​ All content is responsive and mobile-friendly

• ​ We automatically generate SEO-friendly content (URLs, HTML, etc.)

​ Technicalities

• ​ We automatically generate sitemaps based on your ToC

• We generate SEO friendly URLs based on each page's title

• ​ The HTML we generate covers the essentials:

  • We generate HTML titles and descriptions based on your GitBook page's title and description

  • We avoid duplicate content through smart canonical URLs

  • Image captions are rendered as alt attributes

• ​✅ HTML sent to crawlers is pre-rendered (i.e server-side) this means that crawlers do NOT need JavaScript to index your content (app.gitbook.com is a Single Page Application and requires JS, but not user content).

​ Notes

We don't generate keyword meta tags, because modern search engines do not use them to rank pages. This was officially confirmed by Google a few years ago.

We don't yet integrate with Google Search Console, if this is important, you can upvote this existing feature-request.