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The Ultimate SEO Guide: Built for Developers, by a Developer

Most SEO guides are made for marketers. This one is different.

After years building products that rank #1 and scale to millions in organic traffic, I decided to open-source the full system we use at Sqaleup Inc. where developers are in charge of performance, SEO, and discoverability from day one.

🚀 What’s Inside

✅ Technical SEO Foundation
Clear breakdowns of meta tags, schema.org, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and Core Web Vitals with code samples.

✅ React/Next.js SEO
Practical code examples using next/head, dynamic metadata, server rendering, and canonical URLs.

✅ Free SEO Tools Stack
How we extract value from Google Search Console, SEMrush (free), Ahrefs reports, and more.

✅ The IMAM Method (intent-based content)
A repeatable strategy to map keywords to dev blog posts, landing pages, and product copy.

✅ Performance-SEO Alignment
Advanced practices to hit 90+ Lighthouse scores without breaking your DX.

🧑‍💻 Who This Is For

  • Frontend devs building public-facing products
  • Full-stack devs managing site SEO
  • Founders launching SEO-dependent MVPs
  • Devs tired of waiting for the marketing team to “handle SEO”

📈 Results You Can Expect

  • 300–500% increase in organic traffic
  • 40–60% keyword ranking in Top 10
  • Sub-2s load times on SEO-heavy pages
  • Dev workflows that don’t sacrifice discoverability

📖 The full guide is available here: https://github.com/Imam-Abubakar/ultimate-seo-guide
MIT-licensed. Free forever. Built by developers, for developers.

Drop your biggest SEO dev pain in the comments, I’d love to help debug it.

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Fantastic App – feature-rich and intuitive.