Developers Yes You Can Be A Great Mentor Too

As a web developer, there may come a point in your career when you're expected to train a fellow budding developer on the ins and outs of coding and practical execution behind every professional creation. There are many aspects of the position that you might have to gloss over: HTML, CSS, blending visual elements appropriately, verbiage, forums and communities, CodePen and so on. There are quite a few places that a developer will go not only on the web but within their own skill sets; they're like physical, navigable environments on two different planes of reality. Connecting them is, of course, another developer who made it possible to go such places and interact in these ways.

Still, newcomers won't know all of this, and you may have never thought about how to explain it. Search engine optimization (SEO) is considered second nature to nearly every developer who's worth their salt in tablespoons, but it can seem completely foreign to an outsider. Remember the time you were introduced to code and you went, "How in the world does anyone learn this, who figured all this out, and why does it work?" Well, a bare-knuckle pup in site construction can feel the same way about pay-per-click and other taken-for-granted elements of everyday web usage now.

There's really no one way to approach it. You should probably start by explaining search engines, queries, user intent and site ranking before explaining SEO; get down on your hands and knees to talk to them like you're the author of the Idiot's Guide series. Computers are straight-thinkers; they don't innovate or draw in curves. Everything inside how a search engine, website and code function is up to an extremely long series of yes and no protocols.

Unfortunately, it's all too common for "reasonably experienced" developers to find themselves tasked with the construction of a website or working straight out of an office in the business get-up that you'd expect despite being oblivious to what header tags are or why it's necessary to optimize a site's content for search engines to locate them. Get ready to deal with it because you're probably going to be tasked with mentoring someone who, for no reason explainable, found their way into a gig without a check at the door. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/8d4yy4/seolessonsfor_intern/.