SEO Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Dev Projects
The article discusses common SEO mistakes that developers make which can hinder their projects' visibility. It emphasizes the importance of properly configuring meta tags and structured data to improve search engine indexing. Additionally, it highlights the need for server-side rendering or prerendering to ensure content is accessible to crawlers.
- ▪Many developer-built projects have empty or generic <head> tags, which can confuse search engines.
- ▪Client-side rendering can delay content indexing by Googlebot, making server-side rendering a safer option.
- ▪Structured data is essential for communicating with search engines and enhancing search results.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3865540) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mitu Das Posted on May 19 SEO Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Dev Projects #seo #developer #webdev I spent 3 hours debugging why Google couldn't crawl my React app. Lighthouse scores were green. The app loaded fine in the browser. But Googlebot was seeing a blank <div id="root"></div> and walking away confused. The fix was 4 lines of meta tags and a prerender config I'd been skipping for months.
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