Ask HN: How to get real SEO improvement?
Your website is only about 7 months old. I was lucky to have 30-50 visitors around then. Think about the universe and you are Earth. It is kind of like that. Social media will help you get it out there. But the majority of people have no idea that you exist. You have to work to get them to notice.<p>Meta tags don&#x27;t work anymore or at least are not very important. You should, however, have a good description and a headline that is unique for every page you have. A subheadline is recommended. Then it is just unique content from there. It looks like you are on the right track. I&#x27;d recommend getting a Twitter account and sharing those articles with some hashtags.<p>Remember that your audience is a niche audience and you will attract people who are interested but there are only about 20 million coders in the world, not every single one of them is going to be interested in your website, and others who might scan it once and be done.<p>You have the right idea on your &quot;getting started with coding&quot;, as you can gain attention and traction to get new coders on board. So you just need some time and exposure. Any time you can, mention tutorials on your website to help others.<p>I run a website called <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com</a> and I remember when I had just three visitors in the beginning: my mom, my girlfriend, and Googlebot. Having posted to Twitter, Triberr, LinkedIn, and other media over the years, I&#x27;d say my average daily visitor count is around 1,000, over 4 years later, but I have seen the website go viral at times, in fact, just a few weeks ago, it was getting 10,000 visitors a day for almost 2 weeks.<p>What&#x27;s my secret? I&#x27;m not the only one writing articles for the website. I opened it up so everyone else can write and share articles. What does that do? People who are likely to have their articles on your website are going to share those articles with their fans and following. So if I have a thousand articles on the website written by different people who have their own fans and following, and you encourage them to share for maximum exposure, that amounts to at least an average of 500 people each (with generosity for exposure in mind), that is the potential reach of at least 500,000 people.<p>Become a community that people want to be at and write for and you will find the best SEO results that you never had to pay for.