Lovable Just Shipped SEO Automation. Here's What Is Working And What's Not.
Spent the last two days testing Lovable's new SEO automation that shipped on May 13. Wrote up what I found yesterday on creativecore.ai. The funny moment: I published the article, ran Lovable's review tool on my own site this morning, and the scan showed exactly the pattern I'd just written about. 3 of 8 flagged items are demonstrably false against the live HTML. Sitemap, llms.txt, and "page titles are repetitive" all show as problems in Lovable's dashboard. All three return correctly when I check the live URL directly. The article explains why this happens. Short version: There are three layers to SEO on a Lovable site. Layer 1 (sitemap, robots, llms.txt) is now automatic after Lovable's May 13 update. Layer 2 (per-page titles, headings, descriptions, body content) sometimes reaches the live site, sometimes doesn't, depending on when your project was created. Layer 3 (navigation menu, footer links, article cross-links between pages) isn't being handled by any platform yet. If you want to check your own site, here are three commands you can paste into Terminal (Mac) or PowerShell (Windows). Replace your-site.com with your actual URL. curl -s https://your-site.com/ | grep -oE "<title>[^<]*</title>" Run it on the homepage, then on another page like /about. If the titles are identical, your per-page titles aren't reaching search engines. curl -s https://your-site.com/ | awk "/<body/,/<\/body>/" | wc -c That counts how much content is on your homepage. Under 500 means search engines see almost nothing. curl -s https://your-site.com/ | grep -oE "<a [^>]*href=\"/[^\"]*\"" | wc -l That counts how many internal links your homepage has. Under 5 means your nav menu isn't reaching search engines. Full writeup with the why and what to fix: https://creativecore.ai/blog/lovable-seo-automation-tested.html