Building in public, week 9: cross-links, positions going up, and 246 new dev.to followers in 7 days
In week 9 of building in public, the focus was on improving website infrastructure, particularly internal cross-linking across all 64 landing pages, which contributed to an improvement in average search position from 43.8 to 40.1. Technical SEO efforts included on-page optimizations, canonical fixes confirmed by Google, and content enhancements such as expanded FAQs and schema markup. Despite increased impressions and followers on dev.to, click-through rates from search remain stagnant.
- ▪Internal cross-links were added to all 64 landing pages, increasing coverage from 40 to 64 pages.
- ▪Average search position improved from 43.8 to 40.1, the first improvement in a month.
- ▪Google confirmed resolution of 35 canonical URL issues previously flagged in Search Console.
- ▪The author gained 246 new followers on dev.to in one week, primarily due to a technical article on AVIF encoding speed.
- ▪Pinterest was used to publish image conversion pins, aiming for visibility in image search rather than direct traffic.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3820869) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Serhii Kalyna Posted on May 17 Building in public, week 9: cross-links, positions going up, and 246 new dev.to followers in 7 days #buildinpublic #webdev #seo #rust tl;dr: Week 9 was infrastructure week. Closed the biggest SEO gap internal cross-links on 100% of pages. Average position improved for the first time in a month. The numbers Metric Week 8 Week 9 Indexed URLs 72 75 Impressions (3 months) 463 509 Avg.
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