diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2d1f5e665..56a080be8b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ Contains the `main.scss` that imports sass files from within the `_sass` directo
 
 This directory can include sub-directories to manage assets of similar type, and will be copied over as is, to the final transformed site directory.
 
+### Plugins
+
+Minima comes with [`jekyll-seo-tag`](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag) plugin preinstalled to make sure your website gets the most useful meta tags. See [usage](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag#usage) to know how to set it up.
 
 ## Usage
 
diff --git a/_includes/head.html b/_includes/head.html
index 99b698fc81..6611762a52 100644
--- a/_includes/head.html
+++ b/_includes/head.html
@@ -2,15 +2,10 @@
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
-
-  <title>{% if page.title %}{{ page.title | escape }}{% else %}{{ site.title | escape }}{% endif %}</title>
-  <meta name="description" content="{{ page.excerpt | default: site.description | strip_html | normalize_whitespace | truncate: 160 | escape }}">
-
+  {% seo %}
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "/assets/main.css" | relative_url }}">
-  <link rel="canonical" href="{{ page.url | replace:'index.html','' | absolute_url }}">
   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ site.title | escape }}" href="{{ "/feed.xml" | relative_url }}">
-  
   {% if jekyll.environment == 'production' and site.google_analytics %}
-  {% include google-analytics.html %}
+    {% include google-analytics.html %}
   {% endif %}
 </head>
diff --git a/minima.gemspec b/minima.gemspec
index e9f6f6e4b5..b0bdfd9ed0 100644
--- a/minima.gemspec
+++ b/minima.gemspec
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.bindir        = "exe"
   spec.executables   = spec.files.grep(%r{^exe/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
 
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll", "~> 3.3"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll", "~> 3.5"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-seo-tag", "~> 2.1"
+
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.12"
 end