Website Updates and SEO Reviews | Week 35

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Keeping up with changes

This week has been pretty hectic. Sort of. I’ve been working a lot on the new website and revamping my pages. It can be a bit tedious, but I also love the learning process of it all. I think it comes at a good time, as I work my way through the UC Davis SEO Specialization on Coursera. The SEO landscape is always changing and taking this series of courses is giving me a lot of new insights on where the focus should be and how to implement it.

Quick Thoughts on The UC Davis Course

I think my only gripe with the certificate course is that it’s a lot of book learning. So the main instructor teaches terms, good practices, and how to do said practices, but there are very few hands-on activities. So I feel like I know what I should be doing and what tools I should use, but I don’t really know. 

The best analogy I can think of is someone reading everything they need to know about being a surgeon, but never doing any practicals or surgeries. So they know what they should do and how it should be done, but have never actually done it. 

To solve that, I’m going to use my own site as a sort of hands-on case study. Part of that is the website revamp. Make everything a bit more focused, more consistent, and hopefully something more people can enjoy. At the end of it all, I’d love for it to be a live showcase of my skills for my portfolio

Most things arrive back at the “job search” theme, but it’s my new “carrot” at the moment. I want to do one small thing every day that gets me closer to my “dream future self”. Future Gemma is employed in some shape or form and is happy to be learning and growing every day doing something she genuinely loves.

So, the goal is one thing every day. No zero days. Even if that one thing is just changing color or word on my website here or there. 

On my mind this week:


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