New style

A personal website is a website that was created by a person who just wants to relieve their stress or just distract themselves, and we assume it is something simple, but life is cruel and everything must go downhill. SEO is used by companies to achieve decent positioning in search engines and in turn attract more customers, but following these techniques or guidelines is not easy at all, even for an ordinary person.

What is SEO?

In a nutshell, SEO or Search Engine Optimization, these are guidelines used to position yourself in search engines and provide quality content to the user, which seems like a good idea to me. As I understand it, SEO techniques are used by companies to reach more people, or by content creators to achieve views.

My SEO mistakes

Accessibility error

My website uses a modified Jekyll theme, which is a bit neglected and that’s why I had to modify it in the first place, but I left out the color of certain places in the theme, the colors do not have good contrast and it was difficult to see, and had overlooked it.

And that wasn’t the whole problem, also the site’s robots.txt was practically useless, and for that reason I had to create it myself since it did not contain instructions for search robots, and now it looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://alxira5.vercel.app/sitemap.xml

Practically being totally static, I’m giving the order to the search robots to crawl my entire site, and I hope it is not for bad.

Conclusion

Maybe I didn’t mention it before, but I literally had to rebuild the entire website because of the amount of mistakes I made, even non-SEO errors, although I am glad I learned from this beginner’s mistake so I don’t make it again.

And to finish, don’t trust plugin default files, they are usually problematic.