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In the Pages Router you add elements to the document head with next/head.

officialNext.js docs (Pages Router and v13 to v14 era)confidence 50%current as of Oct 2023

The Pages Router uses the next/head component. You render Head then place title or meta tags inside it. This is still correct for a pages/ project. In the App Router the Metadata API replaced it.

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In the App Router you set page metadata by exporting a metadata object or a generateMetadata function from a layout or page.

The App Router Metadata API replaced next/head as the recommended way to set head tags. next/head still applies inside the Pages Router only.