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Writing from around the web in 2019

Posted on: December 2, 2019

In my day job at Builtvisible, I get to work with engineering teams all over the world.

Over the years I’ve noticed that SEO has a decidedly mixed reputation among developers - some enjoy the novel technical challenges that come with optimising complex websites for crawlers, while others approach the entire field as if it were a dark art or pseudoscience.

This is hardly surprising, given the number of quacks and con-artists who pose as SEO experts. But it’s also a shame, because (real) SEO is a fascinating area to specialise in. There are hundreds of people in this industry who I really look up to, and who take the time to share their expertise with the community via their blogs.

This was the motivation behind my article for Smashing Magazine a few years ago, and it’s why I’ve written a new piece for Moz too.

In the spirit of being a productive member of the SEO community (and because it’s been ages since I did any freelance writing), I’ve dug into a fun technical topic that I haven’t seen much coverage of:

Enjoy, and please SEO responsibly.