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I've probably been promoting it too much lately, especially on here. I'll pass on this one, but just wanted to say thank you to everyone who shares a project.
by cdiamand 6y ago
I've probably been promoting it too much lately, especially on here.
I'll pass on this one, but just wanted to say thank you to everyone who shares a project. It really does help others to see what is possible.
Sidequestion: Does anyone have any recommendations on simple guides to SEO? I'm realizing the power of search traffic to bring in visitors to sideprojects.
- jeromegv 6y agoCheckout moz! Very straightforward
- cdiamand 6y agoThank you! I will check it out.
- seanwilson 6y ago> Sidequestion: Does anyone have any recommendations on simple guides to SEO? I run a Chrome extension that will crawl your site and give on-page/technical SEO suggestions: https://www.checkbot.io/ https://www.checkbot.io/. The SEO best practices it checks for are explained + justified in a simple fashion here: https://www.checkbot.io/guide/seo/ https://www.checkbot.io/guide/seo/ I know a lot of developers are skeptical about SEO advice (e.g. keyword density stuff, experiments that try to reverse engineer how Google does ranking), but the rules from the guide above are linked to things Google have directly recommended. Most on-page SEO best practices align with what would benefit a regular user also.
- jedberg 6y ago> Most on-page SEO best practices align with what would benefit a regular user also. Because good SEO is indistinguishable from good UX. :) The best SEO advice you can give someone is "make the page easy for a blind person to read". Just doing that one thing will get you about 99% of the way there.
- seanwilson 6y ago> The best SEO advice you can give someone is "make the page easy for a blind person to read". Yep, makes sense when you consider most search bots "see" webpages in the same way a screen reader will. Anything that helps a screen reader understand the content of a page better is going to help a search bot and vice versa - they're both bots. :)
- draxofavalon 6y agoAgree 100%, + fresh content
- mlent 6y agoShameless plug: I run a newsletter that teaches developers about blogging and SEO. You can sign up for a 7-day challenge to publish one excellent, SEO-optimized blog post: http://bloggingfordevs.com/ http://bloggingfordevs.com/ (Oh, and if I need to qualify myself, I grew traffic on one of my side projects (a content website) to over 100k per month primarily via SEO) --- In terms of sources for SEO information and just getting started, I'd check out Brian Dean's guide (I haven't read through it thoroughly myself, but he's very known in the SEO world): https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year Another useful way of looking at this is to see the factors Google actually use to rank your content: https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/ranking-factors https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/ranking-factors The Ahrefs blog (a tool for doing keyword research and competitor analysis) is also chock full of resources: https://ahrefs.com/blog/ https://ahrefs.com/blog/ SEO changes all the time, I'd also recommend plugging into some communities or following SEO professionals on Twitter. Barry Schwartz is a great example of this: https://twitter.com/rustybrick https://twitter.com/rustybrick These are just a few things off the top of my head.
- asalahli 6y agoJust want to say, thank you for Opps Daily :) I thoroughly enjoyed reading the opportunities every day. Was sad to see it get closed.