7 Best Programming Languages to Learn for SEO - Search Engine Journal

When it comes to learning programming languages, there is no shortage of them. Here's why it's critical to learn a programming language for SEO

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There are many programming languages to learn.

For SEO, the programming language you choose depends on what you plan to do with that language and how you plan to implement changes from that language.

When SEO professionals create programs for SEO, they typically want to do some combination of these four things:

• Make their job easier.
• Create a faster impact by adding automated efficiencies.
• Add a talking point to their resume to help improve their job prospects.
• Become more easily aligned with the engineering team they work with.

That last one is usually the culprit, because SEO pros who don’t have programming knowledge may have a harder time identifying coding issues such as W3C validation problems, and other issues that are not easily exported from a tool.

There is also a debate that rages on in the world of SEO: Does somebody need to be a programmer (or know about programming languages) to learn SEO?

Let’s get the most obvious answer out of the way first: No, you don’t have to know how to program in order to learn SEO.

As a field, SEO is concerned with how well you can achieve rankings for targeted keyword phrases.

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