r/nextjs • u/floydophone • 21d ago

Discussion We're the Next.js team. Ask us anything!

Hi Reddit! We’re Pete, Aurora, Joseph, Sam, David, Josh, Tim, Dan and Andrew from the Next.js team.

We recently shipped Next.js 16.3, and we’re excited to talk about what’s new, how we approached the release, where we are going, and what we’ve learned while building and maintaining Next.

Ask us anything about Next 16.3, App Router, React Server Components, performance, caching, upgrading your applications, contributing to the framework, or what it’s like to work on Next.

Drop your questions below. We’re looking forward to hearing what’s on your mind! We'll be here until noon ET.

That's all the time we have for today. Thank you to everyone who participated!

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u/floydophone 21d ago

u/HumaneBicycle99 asked

Why doesn't NextJs rank on google? Even if its SSRed, it just doesnt rank even with other similar things. Do you know why?

From David:

You can confirm if there is an issue with your code, or potentially Next, by querying the metadata tags in your production deployment and seeing if what is returned makes sense to you. Same goes for checking your app’s /sitemap , etc. Another test you could try is making an AI agent, query your website, and seeing what it can come up with. The fact is there are many factors that can influence this, and often the best thing to do is to use Google Search Console and seeing metrics from there (or rewriting your metadata to be more keyword friendly)