How I Optimized My Next.js 15 Portfolio for Google Search (and won)

I'm not a marketing person. I'm a developer. So when I decided to take SEO seriously on my portfolio, I approached it the same way I approach everything else — read, implement, measure, iterate. This is the exact process I followed on my Next.js 15 portfolio to get it ranking on Google. Not theory. The actual implementation, the mistakes I made, and what finally worked. Why most developer portfolios rank for nothing Before the technical stuff, let me say the quiet part out loud. Most portfolio s