Ask HN: Best way to build an SEO friendly, high content site in 2024?
I have a few upcoming projects that will be fairly content heavy and need good SEO. Most of my experience is in mobile and embedded systems dev, though I've briefly touched Rails and Node.js.
The last site I had, was just an index.html file, some css, and a bit of attached JS. I threw it on a ridiculously expensive webhost (MediaTemple) and that was that.
What's the best and cheapest way to build a fairly content heavy site these days, without as much "magic" as possible? I can write Javascript but I've read previous threads like this and people are often throwing out names like Next.js, React, or whatever the new shiny thing is, and it seems like massive overkill. I generally like to be able to reason about systems I write with not too much "magic" and 102321232 dependencies.
Any suggestions?
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My take is Hugo is pretty good and crazy fast (written in Go) but I like Pelican because it is easy to customize in Python.
Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?
Also most web sites have navigation, lots of internal links will help web crawlers find everything and decide that it is important. Are you going to back and change them all by hand whenever you make a change?