SEO for Open Source Projects
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, it’s all the things you can do to the website to make it high in organic (not paid) search results (mostly in Google that have a bigger market share).
There are two types of things you can do to optimize the page. The first is on-site optimization, which is modifying the website HTML to make it rank better. This includes keywords in the text, speed of the site, mobile-friendliness, also to some degree accessibility of the site. The second way to optimize the site are links that point to your website. And this basically sums up everything.
When you create an Open Source project you probably what users to see the project and use it. You don’t want to have a project that no one uses. The first thing to do if you want to make your project more visible is to promote your project in different ways. You can read a great article about this subject in this article:
If you wondering what else you can do, the answer is SEO. Google searches are a big part of the traffic to any website. You can have a lot of visitors from search engines. And you can do this with a little bit of work. You don’t need to pay anyone to do this. You can do SEO yourself. This is especially important for Open Source where you most likely don’t get paid and you don’t want to pay to promote your project.
