Per Starke

Posted on Oct 31, 2023 • Edited on Apr 16, 2024 • Originally published at blog.perstarke-webdev.de

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) #2 - URL Structure

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) #2 - URL Structure
SEO is an incredibly important topic in web development!
Being well-positioned on Google (or other search engines) is undeniably a crucial goal for a website. Improving your website's position from 8 to 4 in a Google search can lead to an average of four times more visitors, and if you reach position 1, it's an additional twelvefold increase! [1], [2]

In this series of posts, I want to show you what you can do to optimize your site for search engines.

Each post will explain a "to-do" for your website's SEO.

The prerequisite is always that the absolute basics of your website are in place! This means you have relevant content, well-written texts, appropriate keywords for your target audience in your texts, and a clear and appealing website design. This also includes a proper navigation system to make all content easily accessible. If these basics are not in place, further tricks won't do much for your SEO.

Let's start with To-Do #2 for your SEO - A good URL structure!

Read the full post on my website

How to reduce TTFB

In the past few years in the web dev world, we’ve seen a significant push towards rendering our websites on the server. Doing so is better for SEO and performs better on low-powered devices, but one thing we had to sacrifice is TTFB.

In this article, we’ll see how we can identify what makes our TTFB high so we can fix it.