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Victor Hugo, a SEO tool for Hugo based sites (opinions pls)

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Why is jQuery a dependency for an SEO plugin for a static site generator like Hugo?

Normally I'd say it's not a big deal, but it looks like jQuery is barely being used here. It shouldn't be too hard to eliminate in this case.

To be honest, I did it in 48hs while doing 10 other things. I actually wasn't even sure where I was going with the whole thing until it was done. Now comes the work of purifying the code into vanilla js and making things neat.

But, yes, jQuery has no place there.

>Check for passive voice in your copy.

I know this is a meta statement but I cannot possibly believe that this is the sort of thing that would cause Google to downrank your site. A quick search informed me there are thousands of SEO blogs on the dangers of passive voice. But as with a lot of this industry, the reading appears to be along the lines of "it reads better and I'm sure Google would rate that".

That's what you get with adversarial optimisation like this. If we actually knew what worked for the algorithm, the algorithm wouldn't work as people would immediately game those published vectors of optimisation.

SEO is not always about ranking in a search engine but also about appealing to the people searching.

Of course you want to rank high but you also want people to click on your content.

I agree it almost certainly has no effect on bot-ranking. It may influence those clicking on the results though.

It does influence in those clicking the results.

FYI: There is another hugo related project under the same name. https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo

Code is a mess, but that's the general idea. Will clean it up with time and blood, like papa taught me.

Any input is welcomed.

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