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I am sharing every day a lesson I learned while building my last products.

Stay lean and rely on two tools:

Google Search Console

1. Sign in to search.google.com/search-console
2. Enter your website’s domain
3. Verify your domains (a few DNS providers are integrated for easier setup)
4. Submit your sitemap under Sitemaps
5. Use @goenning’s open-source indexing tool to fast-track new page indexing by Google

Ahrefs Webmaster Tool

1. Sign up in ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools
2. Enter your website domain
3. The free tool gives you a view over backlinks (see attached pic) and let’s you perform a very SEO-thorough Site Audit (optimize for 90-100 and you’re fine)

There are other great tools (SEMRush, UberSuggest) but I would stick to these for a great-enough performance.

Tomorrow let’s talk about your first backlinks!