Search Engine Optimization for Developers

Introduction to important categories and concepts

SEO stands for search engine optimization. Simply put, it is:

The process of making your website easy for search engines to find and read your website

It should be one of the primary considerations for every modern application developer, and if you are developing a website professionally, taking SEO into consideration while building your website can make a huge difference to your companies bottom line 🤑.

There are a few primary categories of optimizations that will allow you to excel in SEO. At some point I would like to delve deeper into each of these topics, but for in this article I want to give a birds-eye view of the categories, with links off to more in depth resources for each.

How do Search Engines Work

The way that the search ecosystem works, in a general sense, is that each major company that has a vested interest in scanning and saving website information (think google) builds what is called a crawler.

credit: https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/evolution-of-web-crawlers-growing-by-leaps-and-bounds/