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SEO tips for your developer portfolio

Rossella Ferrandino on August 31, 2020

As a front-end developer, I am often working on client websites to optimise their SEO. This week, I applied some of these strategies to my develope...
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ItsASine (Kayla) • Edited

100 SEO score on Lighthouse

I love that my portfolio has a 90 score on Lighthouse because I have a robots.txt file that disallows crawlers. My SEO would be great if I allowed search engines :P That should be an automatic 0 not a 10 point ding.

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Rossella Ferrandino

Good point, I did not include a robot.txt file in my project so I didn't mention this in the article. I could not find any reference about the Lighthouse score being impacted by the presence of a robot.txt file, just some recommendations about fixing invalid syntax in the file. Source here.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

My specific result is is crawlable which I misremembered since it cares more about noindex than the robots.txt (I really don't care to have my name on search results). But the gist was right where since the page can't be indexed, I lost 10 points. But since it can't be indexed, the rest of the idea of being "Search Engine Optimized" is silly. I like having a perfect 90 moreso for accessibility since good SEO tends to mean an optimized site for assistive tech.

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I actually made a video covering this, but it basically turned into a joke when I realized that Google doesn't follow their own rules and most of their sites score horribly on their own tests
dev.to/renaissancetroll/google-doe...

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John LeMay

I am new to SEO and this was tremendously helpful!

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Rossella Ferrandino

Thank you so much, John!

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Chris Bongers

Great tips! Love how the web is getting more and more about speed and optimising these days.

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Rossella Ferrandino

Thank you so much! Lighthouse is a great tool to know exactly what to do to improve both of these :)

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Madza

Nice portfolio, also played Rock, paper, scissors a bit 😂😂

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Rossella Ferrandino

Thank you so much! Rock, paper, scissors... it never gets old! 😂

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Ajay Sharma

Not new to me but that is really helpfull.

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Andrew Baisden

Good tips here I think that SEO sometimes gets left till last or forgotten by some developers.

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Andrew Baisden

Cool tips I would like to get a 100 across the board on lighthouse for my website one day. FYI you can add syntax highlighting to your code blocks when you post.

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Max Lockwood

I am new to SEO and had never heard of Lighthouse until now. This was very helpful!