Programmatic SEO with Notion

Yesterday I completed the migration of my Cloakist Blog from Ghost to Feather Blogs.

It was super easy to set up and I spent some time test-driving the awesome new "Programmatic SEO " features offered by Feather.

Here's a quick overview of the process I followed...

Why did I decide to move?

Well, I had a few pain points with Ghost:

• It was difficult to maintain
• It was difficult to theme
• It was difficult to host at /blog URL instead of a subdomain

About Feather

If you don't already know about Feather Blogs it's an app that allows you to create a blog from a Notion document.

Feather offered me a really easy way to manage my content directly in Notion and have a beautiful blog.

It also solved all three of the pain points I had with Ghost.

Setting up Feather is super easy

Once you sign up, you can duplicate a Notion document that contains all the necessary databases to create a blog.

• Content
• Pages
• Tags
• Authors

Migrating my content

Since I didn't have that many posts to migrate (25 in total) I decided to just do it manually.

It was very easy to copy over the Title, Slug, Publish Date, Excerpt, Author and Content.

But you could easily automate this with a Zapier or Make if you have more posts to migrate.

Hosting the blog

I wanted to host the blog at my Cloakist domain /blog.

So I configured the Cloudflare Worker according to the simple instructions provided by Feather.

Then I removed the old Cloudflare setup for the Ghost blog.

This part was a bit nerve-wracking, but everything worked seamlessly.

We're Live!

And that was it!! My new Feather blog was live 🥳

Programattic SEO

Feather allows you to specify {{Merge Tags}} in your Notion content. These merge tags are dynamically replaced with database properties you specify in Notion.

I created 15 new pages using the Feather {{Merge Tags}} feature.

This allowed me to create some "programmatic SEO" pages using:

Notion Sync Blocks + Notion Template + Feather Merge Tags

🔥🔥🔥

Feather Blogs is truly an awesome app and definitely worth checking out!

It makes managing your blog content from Notion super easy.

And the setup is seamless.

Special Thanks to @pbteja1998 (Feather maker) for the top-notch support throughout!

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Check out the live version of my Cloakist Blog to see it in action!