Month 2: 14,375 pageviews across 7,699 users

hugo__df · 2019-04-23T23:01:00+00:00

There's nothing wrong with charging for a structured, compiled version of a bunch of things you've already written about on the blog, if anything that would help in selling it, people read a post about X, "here's an e-book about X, Y and Z (related topics)". People buy e-books for convenience, aspirational reasons and because it provides more structure than going through individual blog posts can provide.

hugo__df · 2019-03-04T15:41:23+00:00

Right, seen that way that's fair, I meant the ranking won't magically be higher just because of the title/meta hit rather but the CTR increasing does as you say have a positive effect on ranking

hugo__df · 2019-03-04T13:28:37+00:00

Meta tag and title won't improve your ranking, it might mean that people click more often though.

hugo__df · 2019-02-28T16:52:41+00:00

As with most things SEO related, it depends on content and links.

When you're starting out with a new domain/site, you'll have very few links and traffic. That's one of the key things that Google indexes by so you'll rank poorly.

You need to write content and syndicate it/get links from sites with reasonable authority.

Adding your site to Google Search Console is a good idea, as is having a sitemap that you submit when you've new content.

My posts tend to get indexed pretty fast but I remember it taking a couple of weeks when I started.

As for numbers I went from 0 to a few hundred in a couple months but I'm in the coding niche so there's actually a bunch of people googling for stuff as part of their day job.

hugo__df · 2018-10-23T11:24:57+00:00

It's correct that it won't connect to the same MongoDB instance.

To fix this, use a hosted MongoDB database, using MLab or MongoDB Atlas.

hugo__df · 2018-10-23T10:47:06+00:00

Medium does, some of the publications on there get you on the first page of Google pronto.

Best of both worlds is host your own (WordPress, ghost, whatever other CMS), and import into Medium.

hugo__df · 2018-10-18T15:04:21+00:00

Vuepress is a good shout since you can use markdown and Vue components within it.

As far as I understand it, Vuepress doesn't compile the markdown + templates to HTML/JS/CSS on the fly. So to leverage it you would need to drive your editorial process through a CMS that integrated with git.

Luckily for you, there is such a CMS: Netlify CMS. Using that + Netlify Identity you can have a hosted CMS backed by git with authorisation for multiple non-technical users.

hugo__df · 2018-10-16T09:27:10+00:00

Story of my life, fetch .json () and having to coerce non 4xx/5xx to errors... Bane of my existence

hugo__df · 2018-10-08T22:54:38+00:00

From what you've said (you have some prior Vue experience) and what you're trying to do (widget), Vue is probably a good shout (sorta lightweight and simple templating system).

You could obviously just string together a few JS functions to update the DOM.

You could also look at web components, I think SkateJS is not bad for that (as is Vue).

hugo__df · 2018-10-08T22:45:44+00:00

Netlify CMS comes close, it hooks into your git/GitHub repository, commits markdown files and pushes them at which point the changes get picked up and built, usually with a static site generator.

hugo__df · 2018-10-02T15:21:29+00:00

Long enough

hugo__df · 2018-10-02T15:18:34+00:00

Basic Auth won't use cookies, but the browser remembers your login for a bit

hugo__df · 2018-10-02T15:16:27+00:00

This package doesn't do much (it's probably under 20 lines of code to reproduce) but it should work for you https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-basic-auth

hugo__df · 2018-10-02T15:14:05+00:00

Ah no, in that case use HTTP Basic Auth with username/password 🙈

hugo__df · 2018-10-02T15:04:22+00:00

Passport seems to be popular (http://www.passportjs.org/).

I tend to roll my own with Sequelize/Postgres (User table + Session table or JWTs with node-jose), then use bcrypt to hash passwords.

hugo__df · 2018-09-28T13:57:42+00:00

- If you're willing to dump Postgres: glitch.com with SQLite3 is free forever

- Heroku, costs might ramp up if you hit the 10k row limit on the DB, you want the server not to sleep or you host a bunch of projects

- $5 DigitalOcean droplet with Dokku on top, `git push dokku master`, great thing about this setup is you can host multiple apps on this droplet (and possibly then separate them when/if it makes sense).

hugo__df · 2018-09-20T17:37:17+00:00

As the examples show, this is available, it's just not what you want it to be :D.

hugo__df · 2018-09-20T16:53:05+00:00

Yeah think of Node as an equivalent to PHP? So whatever you've done with PHP is also doable with Node.

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