Week 4 of building my side project in public. Still early stage, but this week something shifted — first real organic clicks from Google.
What I worked on this week
Most of the week went into SEO fundamentals I'd been putting off:
- Added Organization and WebSite schema to the whole site
- Created Privacy Policy and Contact pages (E-E-A-T signals)
- Fixed internal link ordering — replaced alphabetical with semantic scoring based on topical relevance
- Expanded thin content pages with proper sections
- Fixed HTTP→HTTPS redirect via Cloudflare
None of this is glamorous. But it's the kind of work that compounds.
What actually drove the clicks
Honest answer: I don't know yet. Too early to attribute. GSC data lags by a few days and the sample size is too small to draw conclusions.
What I can say is that impressions are trending up week over week, and the pages getting impressions are the ones where I added real content — not the thin placeholder pages.
What's next
More content on thin pages, waiting for Google to reindex the schema and E-E-A-T changes from this week, and continuing to build community presence slowly.
Building in public means sharing the slow weeks too. This was one of them — but the trend is pointing in the right direction.
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