I know little-to-nothing about SEO optimization. If you do, please share? Maybe I can make my website stand out more in searches.
“SEO” is a beast — it’s how the search algorithms return non-paid searches. It’s driven by “relevancy” which is measured by how many others websites are linked to the website displayed by the search engine. That’s why wikipedia is the top return for any search terms that have a page on it.
For a non-ad based site, you need to have content connected to other sites, and so it finds yours instead of the major sites that are connected to one another. It’s near impossible to compete with.
That said, what I intend is an online version of a book, freely accessible web searches that sells print/ kindle versions.
Nobody wants to read a 300+ page book w/ footnotes online. But I want it to be searchable, which should drive print/kindle/audio purchases.