I actually found it via the about section so I guess it helped haha

They should add an url into the description text. This will render as backlink any there are many pages out there which replicate github-topic pages which will then give your site many links for free.

IIRC, GitHub adds the nofollow attribute to all user-supplied links links.

Right? First time I run into a README file on Github and I think "Oh, this text is for search engines, not readers".

It's actually refreshing to see end-user documentation and answering the basic questions of “what can this do” and “why should I care” in the readme. Most projects jump straight into how to build it locally, with not even a screenshot of what they’ve created.