diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7c974ab..2f5e6a5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ authors = ["DarrenBaldwin07"]
description = "The official community Rust SDK for the Clerk API"
repository = "https://github.com/DarrenBaldwin07/clerk-rs"
homepage = "https://github.com/DarrenBaldwin07/clerk-rs"
+readme = "README.md"
keywords = ["clerk", "auth", "actix", "axum", "sdk"]
license = "MIT"
edition = "2021"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f9ce1ce..e318da2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
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+[![crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/clerk-rs?style=flat-square)](https://crates.io/crates/clerk-rs)
+[![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/crates/d/clerk-rs.svg?style=flat-square)](https://crates.io/crates/clerk-rs)
+[![docs.rs](https://img.shields.io/docsrs/clerk-rs?style=flat-square)](https://docs.rs/clerk-rs)
# A official community-maintained Clerk SDK for Rust