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First time I've noticed a GH repo having so much SEO in the About section! Not sure how I feel about it..



It's actually refreshing to see end-user documentation and answering the basic questions of “what can this do” and “why should I care” in the readme. Most projects jump straight into how to build it locally, with not even a screenshot of what they’ve created.


Right? First time I run into a README file on Github and I think "Oh, this text is for search engines, not readers".


They should add an url into the description text. This will render as backlink any there are many pages out there which replicate github-topic pages which will then give your site many links for free.


IIRC, GitHub adds the nofollow attribute to all user-supplied links links.


I actually found it via the about section so I guess it helped haha




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