From 0 to 90k impressions in about a year, following Search Engine Optimization good practices was key to help to grow my blog and my audience. Howeve

SEO mistakes I've made and how I fixed them

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2024-04-17 14:30:15

From 0 to 90k impressions in about a year, following Search Engine Optimization good practices was key to help to grow my blog and my audience. However, when I started it, I made terrible mistakes that some SEO literate people could almost qualify as self-sabotage.

Thus, I want to dedicate this blog post to look back at 3 issues that caused me, and many others, countless headaches when dealing with SEO and Gatsby and the steps I took to fix them. I hope that this will help to fix some issues you might currently have on your awesome blog or portfolio without even being aware of them, kick-off your audience growth, and get discovered online 🚀.

You might know very little about what SEO does behind the scenes. To me, at least, it looked like an obscure, inconsistent, pseudo-science that only marketing people could understand (spoiler alert, it still kind of is). However, after getting @monicalent's awesome course bloggingfordevs, it made the inner workings and good practices related to SEO a bit clearer to me. To quote her from her first newsletter

SEO is a way of making sure that search engines can understand what your page is about, that it contains quality up-to-date information from an authoritative source, and will answer the question that the searcher had in mind.