Angular2 - SEO - how to manipulate the meta description

Ronald Padur picture Ronald Padur · Mar 7, 2016 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

Search Results in google are displayed via TitleTag and the <meta name="description"..."/> Tag. The <title>-Tag is editiable via Angular2 how to change page title in angular2 router

What's left is the description.

Is it possibile to write a directive in angular2, that manipulates the meta-tags in the <head> part of my page.
So depending on the selected route, the meta description changes like:

<meta name="description" content="**my description for this route**"/>

Answer

Nico Toub picture Nico Toub · Apr 21, 2017

Since Angular4, you can use Angular Meta service.

import { Meta } from '@angular/platform-browser';

// [...]

constructor(private meta: Meta) {}

// [...]

this.meta.addTag({ name: 'robots', content: 'noindex' });