A Developer's Guide to Blogging

1

Google Search Console

Google's web crawlers will find your site eventually, but it certainly helps to give Google a head start and get your site set up on Google search console. You'll want to do the following:.

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2

Plausible.io

The analytics provider I've gone with is Plausible. Sadly it's not free - about $9 a month - but it's easy to use, lightweight (the script is less than 1kb), and respects privacy, so it's worth a look IMO.

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3

Cloudflare Pages

Hugo's hosting guide lists plenty of possibilities, but personally I can agree with Bryce Wray's recommendation to go with CloudFlare Pages; its free tier is possibly the fastest out there, and it's easy to use. Simply follow their guide from 'setting up a GitHub repository' onwards. At this point your site will be online! But you'll have an ugly domain like my-blog-xyz.pages.dev. Simply follow CloudFlare's guide on setting up a custom domain to get your site live on the domain which you bought earlier.

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4

Hashnode

Hashnode is a newer dev blog site. In my opinion it has a much more professional feel than dev.to. It feels much more blog-oriented than dev.to, and less like a social media site; it gives you a separate blog subdomain, giving your blog a bit of its own separate identity within the site. If you want to you can even hook it up to your own private domain name if you wanted.

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5

Hacker Noon

HackerNoon is very different to dev.to & Hashnode in that any article you submit there has to go through a human editor who works with you to ensure your article is at its best before it is published. However, they may choose not to publish your article at all.

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6

Hugo

For creating a static site I recommend Hugo. In short this is because it is popular, well-supported, fast, and allows you to get up and running quickly with premade templates.

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7

Google Domains

However, a key one to check out is Google Domains, because this is the only registrar which sells .dev domains. My advice is that .com is still the best if you can get one, so if there's one available that you like then go for it, but if not then .dev could be a great alternative.

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8

DEV.to

You've probably heard of dev.to already - it's still the biggest developer blog platform and it's where I recommend you start. You can easily start writing using their simple markdown editor, and it has a large readership so you'll get a good number of eyes on your work straight away.

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