You built something. It works. The code is clean, the UI doesn't embarrass you, and you shipped it. Now... nobody's using it.
This is the part most developers skip, and it's usually why great side projects die quietly in a GitHub repo instead of getting users. The good news: you don't need to become a full-time marketer to fix this. You need to understand a handful of SEO fundamentals that actually matter — and ignore the noise around the rest.
Here's a practical breakdown built for developers, not marketers.
Search Intent Beats Keyword Stuffing
Forget "keyword density." Google's ranking systems today care about intent match* — does your page actually answer what the searcher wants?
