Re:SEO for Web Engineers
by gingerlime on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:51PM
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Exactly! And I think the problem with an SEO guide to engineers in particular, is that it ends up being a list of technical things. Things that are easy to quantify and that are black or white. Those are marginal. Yet an engineer can increase the score in some tool from X to 1.257X so they’re happy.
It’s much harder to write a guide on how to engage and delight your audience, and how to get the attention of other sites and the authority and trust to get linked to.
Re:SEO for Web Engineers
by lifeisstillgood on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:38PM
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of course
Even if it does, in-page problems doesn't affect your result not even by 1%. 99% is backlinks and their quality (or course).
Example: check techcrunch.com and debug/inspect their homepage. 15 JS errors, 6mb in size, no Description/Keywords, awful <title>, bad HTML elements. Can you even remotely beat them in the keyword "startup news"? No way. No matter how hard you will try to "SEO" your website.
I will tell it again. "SEO" was always a gimmick marketing thing. It's crazy that even now ppl don't understand that the only thing that matters are quality backlinks, as a result of quality content.