SEO for Developers by Detlef Johnson
Covid19 State Stats
Quick reference table for United States Covid19 cases.
Coding for SEO 101
Understanding source code, compressed code and compiled code.
5 ways to level up your Vim skills
Level up your Vim skills and kick your text editor up a notch with a few fun tricks.
Coding for SEO
Here's how you can use JavaScript to track COVID-19.
Header request response tool
Markdown rendering tool
Powered by VueJS a helpful little markdown editor is handy for your readme.md at GitHub and wherever else.
Headlines
Google
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch
HMD Global, maker of Nokia-branded phones, raises $230M Series A2 from strategic investors including Google, Nokia, and Qualcomm — Its latest cash injection is notable both for its size (HMD claims it as the third largest funding round in Europe this year); and the profile …
Google
Dieter Bohn / The Verge
Google is partnering with USGS and creating a worldwide, Android phone-powered opt-in earthquake alert system using phone accelerometers — Google is creating a worldwide, Android phone-powered earthquake alert system. The first part of that system is rolling out today.
Privacy
Kashmir Hill / New York Times
Clearview AI has hired pre-eminent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, who plans to assert a free-speech right to disseminate publicly available photos — Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws.
Programming
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat
K2View, whose “micro-database” tech helps automate enterprise data unification, raises $28M led by Forestay Capital — Knowledge platform developer K2View today announced it has raised $28 million that will be put toward accelerating go-to-market efforts.
Google
Lauren Clark / Official Google India Blog
Google rolls out virtual business cards in Google Search in India with links to user's website and social media profiles and optionally, phone number and email — If you search for famous people on Google, it's easy to find information about well-known personalities: search their names …
Javascript Indexing Details
Good extra information on SEO for JavaScript Indexing, including feedback on Angular, React, and Vue from Google's Martin Splitt. What's especially interesting is the ongoing discussion where Martin talks about indexing whereby he used to author a site which used a custom 404 page for the app page. The SEO consultant pointed this out to him and the rest is history.
SEO for JavaScript
The SEO for Developers column at Search Engine Land started in January. Tools on the back end for powering up interesting front end pieces like that are underway. It's an effort to build a proper Search Engine Land companion in Search Return. React and such is forthcoming but not until a need arises for content that begins largely static, however.
0day WordPress Security Woes
A security researcher dropping some 0days may have an axe to grind considering how bad the plugin ecosystem is. It has a "dizzying number of buggy, poorly-audited plugins in the WordPress repository."
