Personal website SEO setup

Most developers will create a personal website to showcase our experience and projects. In this project, you'll build a simple personal profile page hosted under your own domain. The main goal here is make your website SEO-ready and to ensure Google can index your web page.

SEO is a very important source of traffic for many websites. If you have minimal experience with it, this project is a good introduction to get you started thinking about SEO.

• When you search your name + site:https://your.personal.domain on Google, you'll find your personal website as the first search result.
  Note: Depending on Google, it may take a few days for new pages to be indexed and to show up in search results.

• Track how many users access your site via Google Analytics.

For an extra challenge: Searching your name on Google will can rank on first page event you don't need to restrict the search result under your domain name (remove site:https://your.personal.domain)

• Buy a new domain that includes your name. Because we want to rank for "your name", having the domain itself include this as a keyword will make this easier.
• Host your personal profile under the new domain name. You can port the content of an existing personal website to this domain or create a new simple profile with your basic information — no styling or extensive CSS required!
• Make sure your name shows up in the following places:
  • <Title>
  • <h1>
  • Image alt to your personal avatar
  • In the first <p> under <h1>, include your name shows up as many times as possible (within reason)
• Add more content (new paragraphs) to introduce yourself. More content on the page tells Google this is a high-quality website.
• Set the correct canonical URL for your page
• Install Google Analytics
• Create a sitemap.xml and robot.txt file and make it accessible under your root path
• Set up Google search console, and submit your sitemap.
• Recommended: Link to your personal profile on social media and other public pages. This will make it faster and easier for Google to crawl your new website.

• How to host a domain
• How to set up Google Analytics
• Learn more about sitemap.xml and robot.txt
• Recommended reading: A Simple (But Effective) SEO Checklist for 2020 (Ahrefs)