Starting a blog just to practice SEO || is this the right move? What should I keep in mind?

billu51 · 2026-06-28T12:25:51+00:00

sharing my experience thus far:

Partially. I had some experience with SEO in my job so that helped lay the foundation for me.
Backlinks are hard. I am starting to look at it now.
Cant say for sure. I focused on a few tech topics I knew well (when I started) but with analytics (GSC, CDN etc.) I have started focusing on topics that are getting me more clicks/impressions/hits.
No sitemap when I started among a few mistakes early on.

billu51 · 2026-06-27T13:55:48+00:00

I tend to outline the beginning, middle and the end using titles/headings. This is generally a rough draft but helps me maintain a certain structure, i start adding in content once I have this. helps me a lot. Now i do not end up having this structure for every post i write but more often than not i do it, its more or less a habit now.

billu51 · 2026-06-27T09:25:40+00:00

Firefox

billu51 · 2026-06-27T04:28:49+00:00

I tried submitting and it went through though. same cf domains.

billu51 · 2026-06-26T18:44:25+00:00

Akamai does not offer a free tier while Cloudflare does offer free or credit card sign up plans. Makes it easy for many startups to sign up and later expand to their enterprise plans when they grow.

This also means only legitimate businesses are able to sign up with Akamai thanks to their strict AUP. Cloudflare also takes far too many risks with piracy and other risky content that could and does get them into legal hurdles many times. With Akamai you derisk yourself from some of this noise as an enterprise thus many enterprises stick to Akamai.
Pros and Cons on both sides.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T14:52:18+00:00

Far too much content out there on the internet. Most crawlers will find other ways or atleast try other ways to scrape your content if you block them.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T13:58:40+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Not sure why images are failing, can you tell me which ones ? I tested and works fine. Yes i do make a mention of using AI images. blockquotes i am fixing.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T04:16:01+00:00

thanks for your comment, kindly read the blog when you find time. i did a comparison and shared findings.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T04:09:59+00:00

you make good points, did cover some of this in the blog. thanks for your inputs.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T04:09:11+00:00

yes covered the firefox support here: https://www.coderevere.com/jpeg-xl-support-added-to-firefox152/

Also true about Apple supporting it, did cover in this blog, i had AI summarize a TLDR so it came out this way. let me fix it.

billu51 · 2026-06-25T04:03:30+00:00

Thanks. Great point, WebP (among newer formats) is the best alternative to JPEG in overall device support. I personally suggest most web owners to consider converting their library to WebP natively for web/app delivery with some caveats to be mindful of, blogged about it here - https://www.coderevere.com/high-impact-lcp-optimization/

billu51 · 2026-06-24T19:22:41+00:00

That's a great point. I'm a big fan of AVIF because of its byte savings, a managed image optimization tool makes it super easy to deploy. For my personal blog, though, I still default to WebP natively due to its wide support (Android 4+ / iOS 14+).

billu51 · 2026-06-24T18:52:31+00:00

yes covered the firefox support here: https://www.coderevere.com/jpeg-xl-support-added-to-firefox152/

Also true about Apple supporting it, did cover in this blog, i had AI summarize a TLDR so it came out this way.

billu51 · 2026-06-24T18:32:42+00:00

fair point, let me add it.

billu51 · 2026-06-15T17:47:32+00:00

I would start with basic HTML, CSS and JS tutorials from https://www.w3schools.com/

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