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I've had a blog[0] on GH pages for a few years now. I wrote a few posts about how to go about setting up feeds/og tags, GA, and I really should write another on
by steventhedev 11y ago
I've had a blog[0] on GH pages for a few years now. I wrote a few posts about how to go about setting up feeds/og tags, GA, and I really should write another one about setting up everything else.
Basically, hosting a static blog is a rabbit hole. Keep track of where you came from, and share it out there. It's kinda amazing what you can do with a little bit of effort.
Personal plug: I cofounded Feedio[1], which gives you a widget for doing email subscriptions (among other things).
[0]: https://stevenkaras.github.io https://stevenkaras.github.io
[1]: http://feedio.co http://feedio.co
- x5n1 11y agoWhat about the fact that your content is duplicated in multiple places? Does that concern you at all?
- steventhedev 11y agoTo be honest, I'm not really sure what's duplicated here. Are you talking about the markdown sources being visible through the project?
- x5n1 11y agoyeah. google indexes that.
- steventhedev 11y agoHadn't considered that. On the one hand, GH pages is a fairly popular resource for quick static site hosting, so Google should have had an engineer sit around and come up with a special filter just for that. On the other, I doubt very much that they've actually done that. All in all, as long as you set canonical tags for your posts, the duplicate content on another domain shouldn't penalize you too very much. In any case, SEO for a personal technical blog isn't a high priority for me. If I were writing books or doing something to earn money with the blog, I would probably shell out for static site hosting using S3 and Cloudfront or something.