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Research and add SEO to ensure relaxio shows on first page of search results for "relaxio" #65

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docsmage opened this issue Apr 24, 2017 · 3 comments

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audreytoskin commented Apr 25, 2017

For me, Google shows the Play Store listings of some Android app developer going by the name Relaxio.

However, you are number one on DuckDuckGo. So your SEO can't be too terrible.

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audreytoskin commented May 18, 2017

Google and other search engines like to say that, at bottom, their sorting algorithms are just trying to find the sorts of web pages that users will want to see — because the page is interesting, useful, whatever — and that you should therefore focus on just creating compelling content and apps. Beyond this, most of the SEO techniques I know are basically just about making sure your page explains itself well and is well formatted (unless you're trying to build a clickbait farm 😈 ).

  • Semantic markup --- this applies somewhat more so to articles than apps, but probably you'd want to check on some basic things, like:
    • actually using <p> elements for paragraphs, <blockquote> for blockquotes, <header> and <footer> for headers and footers, <nav>, <main>, and so on, rather than just dumping everything into a <div>.
    • headings should be marked up as headings instead of simply styled with larger font-size.
    • also, the different uses of bold and italics in text mean different things, so you should be using different tags to mark them up: <em> for emphasis, <cite> for titles of a work, <strong> for important phrases you don't want the user to skip or misread... <i> and <b> aren't actually deprecated, but their intended use cases are relatively limited.
  • Put a descriptive title in your <h1> and <title> tags, and write a short and sweet <meta> description tag for every page. <meta> tags containing a list of keywords are just about universally ignored, because it's too easy to abuse, but a short description can still be good.
  • OpenGraph <meta> tags will help give you a nice-looking preview when people share a link to Relaxio.
  • Backlinks also help, so try posting about Relaxio on Twitter, Reddit, wherever. If you really wanted to make a big push, you could also ask friends to re-share and comment, and submit to blogs and stuff, but that's starting to turn into social engineering rather than SEO.
  • Keyword optimization (also pejoratively called "keyword stuffing") is where you try to use a keyword or keyphrase as many times as possible to help make sure your site appears higher up for searches for that word or phrase. I wouldn't bother with this except to make sure the <meta> description and About page use relevant language --- probably you ought to mention something about "white noise", "soothing sounds", "relaxation", and/or possibly "ASMR", or whatever phrasing you think most appropriate --- but anything much beyond that veers toward keyword abuse, a technique commonly used in spammy clickbait sites, and you don't want search engines to flag you as spam...

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docsmage commented Apr 6, 2019

This project is no longer maintained enough for this to be relevant

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