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SEO for GitHub Pages: How to Get Indexed on Google (Solo Dev Guide)

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Built a product on GitHub Pages? No one will find it without SEO. Here is how to fix that.

6 Things Every GitHub Pages Site Needs

  1. Meta tags — description, keywords, OG tags, Twitter card
  2. Schema markup — JSON-LD for rich snippets
  3. Sitemap.xml — list every page, submit to engines
  4. Robots.txt — allow crawling, point to sitemap
  5. Canonical URLs — prevent duplicate content issues
  6. Cross-linking — every page links to every other page

Submit to 5 Search Engines 

curl https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=YOUR_URL
curl https://www.bing.com/webmasters/ping?sitemap=YOUR_URL
# Also: Baidu, Yandex, 360
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Content is King

Technical SEO gets you indexed. Great content gets you ranked. Write 1500+ word articles targeting long-tail keywords.

I built this entire setup in 24 hours across 13 pages. All open source at github.com/luw8072-gif.

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