How to Configure Basic SEO Fields and Nav Bar in Your DataHub Cloud Sites

You can now personalize your DataHub Cloud site by:

• setting your own site-wide SEO title and description
• changing the navbar's logo and title, and adding your own navigation links
• switching from top navbar to sidebar with all your site's pages.

Meet config.json file

Any site-wide configurations of your DataHub Cloud sites (other than the ones you can find in the dashboard's site settings page) can be applied via root-level config.json file. We'll explore each of the available config options below. If you want to follow, first create this file in your site's repo.

Improve SEO by Setting Your Site's Title and Description

You can change your site's default SEO title and description by setting the following config fields:

• title: default SEO title for your site (will be used as a fallback value for pages without a title set); note: this title will also be used in your site's navbar
• description: default SEO title for your site (will be used as a fallback value for pages without a title set)

For example, putting the following in the config.json file:

{
  "title": "Joe's Digital Garden",
  "description": "Welcome to my personal travel blog, where I share my experiences and travel tips."
}

…will result in the following SEO values (note, that title tag's value is set to the actual page title, which takes precedence over the site-wide title):

… and the following navbar title change:

Changing Navbar's Logo, Title and Links

As you just saw, setting the title field in config.json already changes/sets the navbar title. But the logo is still the default one. To change it, you can add a local path or an external URL to your logo in the logo field, like this:

{
  "logo": "logo.jpeg"
}

Changing Links in the Navbar

Now we have the navbar title and logo changed, but there are still default DataHub links in there. To change those to your custom links you can include navLinks field in your config.json file, with each link having the following fields:

• name: label of the link
• href: the actual link

For example:

{
 "navLinks": [
  {
   "href": "/blog",
   "name": "Blog"
  }, 
  {
   "href": "/about",
   "name": "About"
  }, 
  {
  "href": "https://twitter.com/datopian",
  "name": "Follow me on twitter!"
  }
 ]
}

Conclusion

Congratulations! You've just learned how to configure basic SEO fields and the navigation bar of your DataHub Cloud site using config.json file.

If you encounter any issues or have questions, the DataHub Cloud community and support team are here to help.

Happy hacking!