First organic click from Google. Took 6 weeks but it happened.

Launched my web app about 6 weeks ago and have been doing SEO

work in the background the whole time. Today I got my first

genuine organic click from Google search. Not from a directory,

not from a backlink, from someone actually searching and finding

me.

Here is everything I did in roughly the order I did it:

Submitted the sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing

Webmaster Tools on day one. Also set up IndexNow so every new

page I publish gets pinged to search engines automatically.

Fixed the canonical tags. Every page was either missing a

canonical or pointing to the wrong URL. The homepage was

canonicalising to the locale-prefixed version instead of the

root domain. Fixed this so Google knows which version of each

page to index.

Split a 954 line landing page client component into server

components. The hero, FAQ, feature grid and prose sections are

now server rendered which means Google gets the full HTML

immediately without waiting for JavaScript.

Made the FAQ answers always visible in the HTML. They were

inside accordion components which meant crawlers could not read

them. Expanded them permanently and added FAQPage JSON-LD schema.

Added about 300 words of prose to the homepage explaining what

the product actually does. Thin content was a problem.

Wrote 35 blog articles targeting long tail keywords my domain

could actually compete for. Avoided the high competition terms

completely and went after things like "ABC model CBT app" and

"cognitive distortion tracker" where there was real search

volume but almost no dedicated content.