🚀 Learning SEO as a Frontend Developer
I have a big task coming up at work: building a solo project where SEO is critical. It will be built with Next.js, so I decided I needed to stop reading about SEO and start doing it.
My strategy was simple: build a side project on weekends and use it as a testing ground.
Once it was live, I immediately set up Google Search Console. I almost skipped Yandex Webmaster entirely—after all, my content is in English. Why would a Russian search engine care? But on a whim, I submitted the sitemap there too.
Two weeks later, the data shocked me:
- 👉 Google: 58 visitors
- 👉 Yandex: 200 visitors
The difference wasn’t just the traffic. Yandex indexed my pages much faster and gave me far more detailed error reports, which helped me fix issues I probably wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
I never expected to say this, but Yandex has been the MVP of my SEO learning journey. 🙌