Last week I polled the twitterverse about their knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Laurie
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Thanks for your article, Laurie!
I think I didn't get the point about
canonical_url. As you say, this post appears on two sites (tenmilesquare.com, the "origin" I guess and dev.to). Shouldn't thecanonical_urlof the post appearing on dev.to point to tenmilesquare.com?Ya, about that. It was meant to. I published there first. And then forgot to add it into the front matter here before I published 🙃. Only just realized yesterday. But my technology consultant post is done that way if you want an example!
Ah right. Yeah this page has:
And I was thinking "Oh noes! Did the DEV editor put that in and overwrite her canonical link? How will I do this?". But, the DEV.to/laurieontech/technology-consultant post has this in its header:
Which is what we should probably all do, for our cross-posts on DEV.to, to link them back to the original on our own site.
So, I guess the question now is: when I cross-post to DEV.to (and I have a few that I'd like to), how do I set the canonical URL back to my original blog post?
Turns out: it's super easy: you press that "WRITE A POST" button in the top right corner there, and paste your Markdown. Then you press the ellipsis button (...) on the editor's top-right corner, and there's a field "Canonical URL" for you to put in your original URL!
Ah great, thanks for your answer! Just had a look at your technology consultant post. And I'm de-confused! =)
Oh good!
I’m an SEO professional working on transitioning to developer career and I can say this primer is right on the money. Thanks for writing it up for the devs who need it!
So glad to hear it! And best of luck with the transition. I'm sure you're gonna kill it.
Great thanks for sharing your SEO.
You can check the website vuaseo.net/ to see if it needs to be optimized.
Thank you very much
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Thanks for your article, Laurie!
Yes, there are a lot of factors for rank a website on google but If your site is engaging and users spend good time on your site then your site will be rank at the top position.
SEO is getting complicated or harder nowadays because of competition google focusing on quality content and user engagement.
voice Search Optimization: In 2021, people became more advance they will do voice search instead of text so optimized your site for voice search.
Infographic submission: or image submission will be booming in 2021 because people love infographic post. It saves time of people.
Website Speed: It is a very important thing when it comes to user engagement. Make sure your website load faster because your user will get not dropped. Slow Website loading speed increases your bounce rate & exit rate and this is not good for SEO
Mobile-Friendly Website: Everyone has a smartphone and people used to search anything from their mobile devices, so optimized your site mobile friendly you will get a lot of traffic from it. You can check speed on my website leading.vn/seo/.
Video content: Some people love videos instead of text, so make short videos of your content and upload them to your blogs it will increase your traffic and engagement ratio.
Yes, there are a lot of factors for rank a website on google but If your site is engaging and users spend good time on your site then your site will be rank at the top position.
Thanks for sharing this advice. I am currently optimizing my blog, and I do not know where to start. It seems like a great idea to use canonical_urls on all my dev.to posts, which I already have set up. I'd love to read more from you about the topic. Again, thanks for sharing.
The canonical url is a more advanced technique, but if you syndicate your blog (post it in multiple places) it’s important so your site doesn’t get dinged.
On page SEO is pretty simple and there are millions of articles on this.
The two key things to look at is Keywords (what people actually search for) and back links. Who links to you site/pages.
Google Webmasters just released this, too. Could be helpful: A video series on SEO myths for web developers -webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/06/...
Thank Laurie,
Your article is a useful document for me in the process of optimizing my website. I'm not a coding expert so I don't understand Canonical_url very well. Can you check it in the web ongcongnghiep.com.vn/? Thank you very much.
Very informative, thanks
Thanks for useful information about canonical url @laurieontech
That update timing though 👀
Great post - It was really great to have everything in a single location for once and not scattered across 16 different tabs.
Great post Laurie.
The hardest thing is knowing where to start and this is a great place to start.
Haha hey Ryan 😊
thank you for the post and what SEO do you use like Yoast and the lot?
Another Google core update May 2020
Deep Learn What is SEO?
very great. Thanks for sharing your seo techniques.
Can you help me get a backlink for this article vuaseo.net/mua-backlink/
Thank you for your article!
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