The Framer SEO playbook

Framer doesn't have ten SEO plugins. It has one built specifically for it. Here's what RankFrame does and why a WordPress plugin port could never match it.

Both Framer and WordPress can rank. The real question is which platform's strengths match your workflow. Honest comparison across every SEO dimension.

Framer has no built-in SEO audit, so most teams ship blind. Run a full site-wide audit and export a PDF report from inside the Framer editor.

Ranking every CMS page takes more than a clean layout. Dynamic meta tags, schema, alt text, and topical authority all need setup. Here's the full playbook.

Google Search Console is the most important free SEO tool any site owner can use. Verifying a Framer site takes under 10 minutes. Here's how.

You published your Framer site and Google still can't find it. There are eight common reasons, all fixable. Here they are, in order of likelihood.

Framer Analytics shows page views, not rankings. Three methods to track keyword positions: Search Console, RankFrame indexing, and the Keyword Tracker.

Schema markup is code that tells search engines what your content means, not just what it says. Pages with schema can earn rich results in Google. Here's how it works.

Core Web Vitals are three Google metrics that measure real-world page experience: LCP, CLS, and INP. Here's what each one means and how it affects rankings.

Meta tags are HTML snippets that tell search engines and social platforms how to display your page. Every tag that still matters in 2026, with copy-paste examples.

On-page SEO is optimizing individual pages, both visible content and underlying HTML, to rank higher and earn relevant traffic. Here's every lever that still matters.

Most Framer sites miss easy SEO wins because there's no built-in checklist. Twenty-seven steps, ordered foundation to advanced, covering every gap.

Until Google knows your Framer site exists, no one can find it in search. Here's every step to get your site verified, indexed, and submitted.

Framer Analytics shows visitors, not rankings. Track keyword positions and Search Console data without leaving the Framer editor.

Framer ships fast by default, then animations, parallax, and hero images push Core Web Vitals into the red. Here's how to measure and fix each one.

Framer auto-generates a sitemap at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Here's what's in it, what gets left out, and how to submit it to Google Search Console.

Framer handles canonical tags automatically in most cases. Here's when you need to override them, how to do it, and how to verify nothing is broken.

Framer ships fast, then heavy images, animations, and embedded scripts wreck the score. 12 techniques to recover speed and stay under your bandwidth limit.

JSON-LD is the format Google recommends for structured data. It lives in a script block in the page head, so it never touches your layout. Here's how to use it.

Google Search Console is the free tool that shows how your site performs in search: queries, positions, clicks, errors. The single most important free SEO tool.

Alt text describes an image to screen readers and search engines. It's one of the highest-leverage on-page SEO improvements. Here's how to write it well at scale.

The Google Indexing API lets you tell Google when a page changes, prompting a priority crawl. Here's the official policy, the practical reality, and how to use it.

Framer has no native schema UI, so every JSON-LD block has to be hand-coded. Here's what schema matters, how to add it, and how to skip the manual work.

Framer's native alt text editor doesn't scale past a few dozen images. Learn how to audit and bulk-generate alt text across your entire site, CMS included.

Broken URLs waste crawl budget, leak link equity, and send visitors to dead ends. Here's how to find, fix, and monitor every 404 on a Framer site.

Meta descriptions are the most underused lever on Framer sites. Here's how to write ones that drive clicks, and how to ship them across hundreds of CMS pages.

Framer doesn't add JSON-LD schema for you. You can paste it manually or let RankFrame inject it automatically. Here's both methods, with a working example.

Images are the most overlooked area of Framer SEO. Here's how to add alt text, prepare files correctly, and audit your entire site at scale.

When someone shares your Framer site on social, Open Graph tags decide what shows up. Here's how to set them per page, per CMS item, and test before you ship.

A sitemap is a file that lists every important page on your site so search engines can find and index them. Here's how XML sitemaps work and why you need one.

Keyword research is how you find the search terms worth targeting before you write a single page. A 7-step process from blank slate to finished keyword map.

Technical SEO is everything that happens between a search bot arriving at your site and your pages becoming eligible to rank. Crawlability, indexability, speed, and more.

A 404 is the status code servers return when a URL doesn't exist. Individual 404s are normal, accumulating ones quietly kill rankings. Here's how to find and fix them.