SEO gets a bad wrap in the development community. But doing "good" in SEO terms means making content people care about and presenting it in a way that both people and machines can understand. These are positive aspirations.
A focus on SEO will, as an amazing byproduct, improve your performance and accessibility – both very human benefits.
Appearing higher in search results means more visitors, which means your projects get used more, which is a good thing!
Here are some of our articles covering SEO-related topics
Google follows URLs in text
Today I learned that Google follows URLs even when they are plain text
SEO for Ruby on Rails projects
How to do technical SEO with your Ruby on Rails application
The main reasons why we shouldn't use click here as link text
There are many reasons why we shouldn't use click here or similar as link text, let's go through them
Google Search Console and S3
Hosting your sitemap somewhere other than your main domain requires some additional steps in Google Search Console
How to use the howTo Schema type
How to use the howTo Schema Type to mark up How To articles
Rebuttal- How to get devs to implement SEO recommendations
An article by Search Engine Land was really off the mark in my opinion, here is why
How to add content grouping for Google Analytics in Jekyll
How to add content grouping for Google Analytics to a Jekyll website
Adding Alt tags to images using image_tag in Rails
Rails makes it easy to add alt tags to images using a handy helper method
Checking for both versions of Google Analytics with JavaScript
Here is how I check for both versions of Google Analytics
Tracking Ctrl+F events in Google Analytics
How I decided to track Ctrl+F events in Google Analytics
What a Developer can take away from SEO Now 2015
Here is what I think a developer can take away from SEO Now 2015
A Pragmatic Approach to adding Schema
Adding Schema to your website doesn't have to be daunting, here is a pragmatic approach
The safest way to track goal URLs in Google Analytics
How you can go about tracking your goal URLs in Google Analytics
Google Translate tracking in Analytics
How to go about recording translations inside of Google Analytics
Getting my Dublin Core on
A tool to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information