Public Pages — SEO Critical

Home, About, Pricing, Team — must render on server and be fully crawlable

Week 25 daysEstimated: 20h totalHighest Priority

This is what the entire migration is for

After this phase, Google, Claude, GPT, Perplexity and every other crawler will see your full page content.

Root Layout — app/layout.jsx

Create app/layout.jsx — wraps every page. Add Navbar, Footer, Sonner Toaster.

2 hrs

Add global metadata export — site title template, description, OG defaults

30 min

Pages to Create — All Server Components

app/page.jsx — Home — No 'use client'. Add metadata.

4 hrs

app/about/page.jsx — Add MedicalOrganization JSON-LD schema.

3 hrs

app/pricing/page.jsx — Add Offer schema JSON-LD.

4 hrs

app/team/page.jsx — Add Person JSON-LD schema.

2 hrs

app/not-found.jsx — Custom 404 page.

1 hr

SEO Files

Create public/robots.txt — allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended

20 min

Create next-sitemap.config.js — auto-generates sitemap.xml at every build

15 min

next-sitemap.config.js

/** @type {import('next-sitemap').IConfig} */
module.exports = {
  siteUrl: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL || 'https://medicare.com',
  generateRobotsTxt: true,
  changefreq: 'weekly',
  priority: 0.7,
  sitemapSize: 5000,
  exclude: ['/dashboard/*', '/doctor/*', '/admin/*', '/founder/*'],
  robotsTxtOptions: {
    additionalSitemaps: [],
    policies: [
      { userAgent: '*', allow: '/' },
      { userAgent: '*', disallow: ['/dashboard', '/doctor', '/admin', '/founder'] },
      { userAgent: 'GPTBot', allow: '/' },
      { userAgent: 'ClaudeBot', allow: '/' },
      { userAgent: 'Google-Extended', allow: '/' },
    ],
  },
}

public/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /doctor
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /founder

# AI Crawlers — Allow them to index public pages
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://medicare.com/sitemap.xml

Phase 01 — Project Configuration

Phase 03 — Authentication Pages