The Blog

Notes from a developer learning marketing.

I’m documenting everything I learn as I add digital marketing to my developer skill set — what works, what doesn’t, and what I wish someone had told me earlier.

What I write about

The intersection of software development and digital marketing — with a focus on the technical stuff most marketers skip.

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Technical SEO

Crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals, structured data — the parts that require actual development knowledge.

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Analytics & Tracking

GA4 setup, event tracking, Looker Studio dashboards, and making sense of your data.

Site Performance

LCP, INP, CLS — how to actually fix Core Web Vitals instead of just reading about them.

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AI & Automation

Building marketing workflows with code — content pipelines, data tools, and custom integrations.

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Paid Ads

Google Ads and Meta Ads from a developer’s perspective — tracking, attribution, and what the numbers actually mean.

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Build in Public

My journey building alexbuildsonline.com — what I’m learning, what I’m building, and what’s working.

Articles

What I’m working on — published articles have a green badge.

How I set up my marketing lab site as a .NET developer
Build in Public Published
GA4 for developers — the event model explained properly
Analytics
Why your sitemap might be hurting your SEO
Technical SEO
Core Web Vitals — what actually moves the needle
Performance
The technical SEO audit checklist I use for every client
Technical SEO

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