Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn 6 Ruby on Rails SEO Techniques
What you'll learn
- Develop more SEO friendly Ruby on Rails websites
- Implement unique meta titles on every website page
- Implement unique meta descriptions on every website page
- Keep certain pages out of search engines
- Create short, simple, relevant SEO-friendly urls
- Use redirects for urls that pass on "link juice" to the new url
- Optimize page titles for search engine traffic
- Have a basic understanding of SEO and make Ruby on Rails websites more SEO friendly by taking the specific steps learned in this course
Requirements
- Students need basic knowledge of Ruby on Rails before taking the course (for example, understanding how rails works with models, views, controllers, and so on)
- Students will also need a computer set up with Ruby on Rails to implement what they learn in the lessons
Description
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You might be able to create the greatest Ruby on Rails website in the world... But is anyone going to find it?
Do you already have some knowledge of Ruby on Rails? And would you like to boost search engine traffic to the Ruby on Rails websites you build? Also, do you want to be more attractive to employers who value web development SEO skills?
My name is David Fonvielle, and I created my first Ruby on Rails website in 2011. When I built my website, I wanted to optimize it for search engine traffic, so that people could find all the articles I was writing and the tools I was building. Unfortunately, I didn't know anything about SEO at the time, much less how to use my skills as a Ruby on Rails web developer to make my website better optimized for search engine traffic.
I looked online for help on how to create a more SEO friendly Ruby on Rails website, and it was a very confusing, time-consuming learning experience.
First, I learned an overwhelming amount of information about SEO, with a lot of contradictory information which made me more confused than ever. Then, I had to figure out how to create a more SEO friendly Ruby on Rails website from bits and pieces of information scattered around the internet.
What I wanted was simple: for someone to teach me the basic, most important aspects of search engine optimization (SEO) that I could do something about as a Ruby on Rails web developer... And then give me specific step by step instructions on how to create a more SEO friendly Ruby on Rails website that addressed these most important aspects.
And that's exactly what this course does.
This course assumes that you have some basic, working knowledge of Ruby on Rails, but it also assumes that you have no knowledge of SEO at all. So you'll learn the most important aspects of SEO that you can do something about with your Ruby on Rails skills, and you'll learn step by step how to use your Ruby on Rails skills to create more SEO friendly websites.
Specifically, you'll learn:
- Why meta titles are so important for SEO and how to implement a unique meta title on every page of your website
- How meta descriptions are related indirectly to SEO and how to implement a unique meta description on every page of your website
- What the best type of urls are for an SEO friendly website and how to create them (this is important: Ruby on Rails does not give you seo-friendly urls out of the box!)
- What types of redirects to use to preserve "link-juice" and how to implement them
- How to keep certain pages out of the search engine results and how to protect your websites from Google's "duplicate content penalty" by making sure you only get the pages you want indexed
- How to make sure that every page title is better optimized for search engine traffic by taking just 1 simple step
By taking this course, you're going to learn one of the most useful, practical, web development skills ever: how to help your Ruby on Rails websites rank in search engine results so that people can find the website you created.
After all, that's the entire point of creating a website in the first place, isn't it? To create something that other people will find, use, and enjoy.
So take this course today and immediately become a more skilled, knowledgeable Ruby on Rails web developer who enjoys getting more search engine traffic.
Enrol in the course right now!
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who has at least some basic Ruby on Rails knowledge and wants to create a more SEO-friendly Ruby on Rails website
- It is ideal for any Ruby on Rails web developer who wants to boost search engine traffic via SEO (search engine optimization)
- This course is also good for anyone who simply wants to further develop their Ruby on Rail skills in a very useful, practical way
- This course will also appeal to any Ruby on Rails web developer who wants to be more attractive to potential employers (having basic SEO skills is important, since every website owner wants more search engine traffic)
- This course is not for someone who has no experience with Ruby on Rails at all (the assumption is that you already understand the basics of Ruby on Rails)
Instructor
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Change your thinking, change your life, & succeed online
My name is Dave Fonvielle, and I'm the creator of Sheets Genie, which gives Google Sheets all sorts of magical superpowers to help you automate collecting, organizing, and processing data in Google Sheets. For example, with Sheets Genie you can scrape data from websites to Google Sheets, and then with one click exclude any results you don't want.
I've been making a full time living online since 2011, and on my Online Success Genie website, I share some of the tools and tips that have helped me succeed online.
I'm also the founder of Always Greater, a personal development website which helps people intelligently change the way they think and feel.
There is a connection between Always Greater and Online Success Genie, because I completely credit all the success I've had online to deliberately changing the way I think and feel about things to be more motivated, confident, action-taking, and so on, to deliberately help me become more successful online as a result.
I first started teaching myself how to change the way I think about things in 2006, after being fed up with struggling with depression off and on for a decade. To this day (writing this in late 2022), I consider this my single greatest achievement, because as a result of the thinking systems I developed for myself, I haven't struggled with depression since 2006, even though I've dealt with plenty of situations since then that would have previously sent me on downward spirals of epic proportions.
So in a nutshell, these thinking changes I started doing in 2006 opened the door for everything that has followed for me since then, including Sheets Genie and Online Success Genie.
Since this has been so life changing for me, I love teaching people how to change their thinking so that they think in more ways that make them happier, more confident, and more successful in life.
As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the most powerful, valuable skills you can ever learn in life.
I have a B.A. from Duke University, and an M.A. from University College London.