Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned

Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by fphilipe on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:48AM (#15958272)

> Well written articles will generally place highly on Google's search results no matter the domain(unless you've got shady shit going on).

Absolutely. I've written two blog posts on PostgreSQL on topics that, in my opinion, weren't well covered and often misunderstood by its users. Both posts show up on the first page on a google search for "psql cli" and "postgres timezone".

I honestly never understood this whole fuss about SEO. In my opinion SEO is about good content. Good content over time will spread, which will result in a higher ranking.

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by forgotpassagan on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:37AM (#15958677)

Google heavy promotes articles that use their Google Analytics and have high time-on-page scores. Everything Google does with search ranking is gameable but built to focus on high quality content. The best thing about having a couple high ranking pages is that it becomes much easier to make others. Your trust score is already high so there's a good chance other articles about postgres will also reach first page, even if they're not about specialized topics. This is what the SEOtards fail to understand

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