A developer's honest guide to SEO for indie hackers. Skip the noise and focus on what actually drives organic traffic: content, backlinks, and technical basics.

Alex CloudStar

A developer-focused guide to SEO for indie hackers, sharing what actually drove organic traffic without an agency or budget. Key insights include: committing to consistent publishing over 6+ months as the single biggest unlock, getting technical basics right (Core Web Vitals, sitemaps, clean URLs), targeting specific long-tail keywords over high-volume ones, using programmatic SEO for tools, building backlinks through genuinely useful content and community participation, and tracking organic clicks in Google Search Console month-over-month. The post also debunks common myths like buying backlinks, keyword stuffing, and optimizing for Domain Authority, and provides a realistic 7-12 month timeline for seeing compounding results.

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