stevenvanvessum

Exactly. I think a lot of people kind of rush into it and only after the launch fails realize that they needed so much more prepration.

Neat list! I've been privy to a few successful launches, and one the most important learnings was making sure your preparation is sound. Especially for launching on ProductHunt, you need to have your playbook ready and your following needs to be ready as well. When it comes to product launches, there's nothing more frustrating when it's an unorganized, uncoordinated mess and you fail to gain that much needed momentum.

Perhaps that's something you could elaborate more on, or emphasize more.

Thanks. Is there anything you'd add to the article?

I've got on my ToDo-list to extend the article with a section about structured data (Schema, Open Graph, Twitter Cards) but I'm open to suggestions!

I think that's what Adobe will do yeah in, say 4-5 years from now.

Already, they're actively pushing customers to their Cloud solution which is a big step away from a self-hosted environment.

Staging environments are often insufficiently protected, meaning they can be accessed by both search engines (sometimes even indexed) and third-parties.

There's no need for that, it's easy to lock staging environments down. I scored all methods that can help with this for: - User-friendliness: the degree to which the method doesn’t add extra inconvenience. - Third-party access: the degree to which the method prevents third parties from accessing an environment. - SEO-friendliness: the degree to which the method keeps search engines from indexing an environment. - Monitoring-friendliness: the degree to which the method lets you monitor the protected environments for SEO purposes. - Risk of human error: the degree to which the method may lead to human errors, impacting SEO.

I hope this is useful for the HN community, and that it prevents a few more staging environments from getting indexed/accessed.

Thanks for sharing, that's a good resource. Would you say duplicate content is an issue for very small sites (think: less than 25 pages) too?