Guide to SEO in Carrd: Simple tips to help Carrd builders leverage SEO

Simple tips to help Carrd builders leverage SEO.

Do you create landing pages for side projects in Carrd then just leave them? Marketing them is hard, so it's worth covering the basics of SEO to maximise your chances of organic discovery.

Side project landing pages don't tend to be big SEO performers, as they don't have lots of page content. That said, there are a number of ways you can cover the basics in Carrd, for better search visibility.

You will learn

• How to structure a site in Carrd for SEO
• How to think about Carrd content for SEO
• What can be done outside of Carrd

“Taught me something valuable I didn’t know in almost every lesson.”
– Jim Ratliff

What's included

This mini guide explains in 10 simple steps – a mix of Carrd-specific tips and general SEO basics.

Contents

Introduction

1. Creating content

2. Carrd structure

3. Mobile-friendly

4. Publishing in Carrd

5. Page speed

6. Analytics

7. Accessibility

8. Carrd Subdomains

9. Outside of Carrd

10. Final thoughts

Disclaimer – Please note this is not a comprehensive SEO guide. It's a list of what you can action in Carrd to cover your bases, without investing bigger budgets or time on SEO.

Examples of it in action

I've used the approach in this guide on most of my Carrd sites. Here's two examples where the sites are consistently in the Top 5 Google results:

— A single page Carrd site I own is at 1.4k monthly page views and 308 Google clicks (June 2024)