SEO & Metadata¶

Global Metadata¶

File: src/app/layout.tsx

The root layout exports metadata and viewport objects from next.

Title¶

Template is "%s | Cipher Unit", defaulting to: Cipher Unit (CipherUnit) | Open-Source Developer Tools & Engineering Collective

Description¶

Focused on the Cipher Unit mission: secure, scalable, high-quality software systems.

Keywords¶

Cipher Unit, CipherUnit, open source developer tools, clean architecture, scalable systems, backend tools, dev infrastructure, engineering collective.

Open Graph¶

• Type: website
• URL: https://cipherunit.xyz
• Title and description variants
• Image set (1200x630) pointing to Cloudinary assets
• Locale: en_US

Twitter Card¶

• Card type: summary_large_image
• Images: Cloudinary main hero asset

Robots¶

• index: true, follow: true
• Google-specific directives for image preview and snippet limits

Canonical & Alternates¶

• Canonical: /
• Languages: en → https://cipherunit.xyz, fa → https://cipherunit.xyz/?lang=fa

Icons / App Metadata¶

• Favicon / icon: Cloudinary logo images
• Apple touch icon: 180x180 JPEG from Cloudinary
• Web app capable with black-translucent status bar style
• Format detection: telephone off, email on, address off, date off, URL on
• Google site verification meta tag present

Structured Data (JSON-LD)¶

Four (4) schema pieces are injected by <JsonLd /> in the root layout:

1. Organization (OrganizationJsonLd)
2. Name: Cipher Unit
3. Founders, contact point, sameAs, areaServed
4. WebSite (WebSiteJsonLd)
5. SearchAction pointing to https://cipherunit.xyz/?q={search_term_string}
6. FAQPage (FAQJsonLd)
7. Four questions about Cipher Unit, tools, open-source status, and contact
8. BreadcrumbList (BreadcrumbJsonLdHome)

Per-Route Metadata¶

/contact¶

• Title: Contact CipherUnit — Cipher Unit Open Source Developer Tools
• Canonical: /contact
• Breadcrumb JSON-LD: BreadcrumbJsonLdContact (Home → Contact)

/github¶

• robots: { index: false, follow: false }
• Canonical: /github
• Viewport: standard device-width declaration
• No content rendered; user is redirected server-side.

Sitemap¶

File: src/app/sitemap.ts

Generates a standard XML sitemap with three entries:

All entries include lastModified (2025-01-01) and alternates.languages (en, fa).

robots.txt¶

File: public/robots.txt

Rules: - User-agent: * — allow /, /contact, /github; block /_next/static/, /_next/data/, /api/ - Googlebot — full allow with crawl delay 0 - Bingbot — full allow with crawl delay 1 - Host and sitemap directives pointing to https://cipherunit.xyz

Security Headers¶

next.config.ts injects the following HTTP response headers for all routes:

• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
• Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
• X-Frame-Options: DENY
• X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Manifest¶

public/manifest.json enables the site to be installed as a PWA with: - Name: Cipher Unit - Short name: CipherUnit - Background color: #0a0a0a - Theme color: #22c55e - Icons: /CipherUnit.png (192x192), /Hero.png (512x512)