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Published my first blog post

Hoping to rank for more keywords, I started blogging on Learn JavaScript's blog.

The content are geared towards beginners and have a unique style which I'm already following in the course.

  1. What do you think of the current format?
  2. Do you have any topic suggestions that I should write about?

https://blog.learnjavascript.online/posts/javascript-foreach-the-complete-guide/

Thanks!

  1. 1

    Congratulations on publishing! I am experimenting with teaching by writing and haven't found my footing yet. Super inspiring to see there is away to make income though.

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    Congratulations! You have explained the topic fairly well.

    Blogging demands persistence and patience. It is not easy to rank higher for easy keywords, especially for JavaScript. There is a huge competition. But if you continue producing quality content, you will eventually rank good.

    P.S. There is a little typo in the heading: NoteList (should be NodeList).

    P.P.S: Last week, I have also written a blog post about ES6's forEach() method.

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    Congrats! It's not easy getting into blogging so nice first step.

    It's important to have a plan with your blog - this starts with knowing your buyer personas. Try to write these out to get a good understanding of your target market and the things they care about, their goals, and challenges.

    From there, you'll get a sense of topics to go after. These are broad topics you want to be a domain expert for and for your personas to seek you out for. 'Javascript for beginners' would be an example topic for you.

    From there do a bit of keyword research - type the topic into Google and see what kewords are suggested, use a tool like http://answerthepublic.com/ as well to get a bunch of keyword suggestions. This gives you keywords to monitor and go after, you can do a bit of light competitor research by searching each keyword and seeing who ranks already - can you create better content than them? If so, you've got a keyword to go after and create content around.

    Also, and this is a biggie, optimize your content - this post does not have a meta description set, which will knock your ability to rank. Google uses the meta title and description in their analysis to understand a piece of content, if you don't have those it'll hurt you.

    SEO is a long game, you're not going to rank right away, it might take 6 months-1 year, but by creating content regularly you will have far more traffic than you would have had you not started blogging.

    Dumped a lot there so happy to answer any follow up questions you might have!

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      thanks a lot for the feedback!
      Oh wow I can't believe I forgot the meta description, fixing it soon thanks!

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    Looks sleek. My only advice would be to use a more traditional .com extension, but other than that looks great.

    Also, do you think it would benefit to allow comments on the blog posts?

    1. 1

      thanks! The main course already has great SEO (you can search for: "learn javascript") and it will show up on the first page
      Yeah not sure about comments, will have to think/experiment with it

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