Part of the Process

The past couple of weeks have given me opportunities to reflect on what I like about my job and previous experience. Partly because we are expanding the team at 15below , partly from doing a bit of coding. I have written a bit about becoming "post-technical"  in the past, but now is the first time I have done much code in years. The thing that I enjoy most is solving problems and helping people. Throughout my career solving business problems to help create positive outcomes has always been fulfilling. Now I get to help do that, then go back and refine the solutions. You don't always get to do that as a developer or in a project focused role. Side project Code wot I wrote The first bit of coding is on my side project . Martyn has created a great architecture and I contributed the project import from LinkedIn ( almost) all by myself. It feels to brilliant to code on a side project - you get a sense of achievement from seeing an idea come to life. It also provides...

This is  part of a series  about my side project  Bashfully , which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. I have already written about Venturing into the world of SEO where I setup the infrastructure on the site, like metadata and adding a sitemap. Then a little later When SEO meets the MVP process on Bashfully , where I revisited how search results appear and what I hoped for Bashfully. Photo by  Annie Spratt  on  Unsplash This has been the hardest part of the project so far. As much as you can setup the structure and hint to search engines, if people aren't finding your site organically then they're unlikely to find it. So, how to get organic searches ? Taking a look in the search consoles the closest searches that appeared we...