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HN wasn't intended to be used as a tool to improve your SEO. It may increase your visibility to actual people or you may sometimes, through HN, get noticed by o
by dragonbonheur 11y ago
HN wasn't intended to be used as a tool to improve your SEO. It may increase your visibility to actual people or you may sometimes, through HN, get noticed by other websites but don't expect it to directly lead to an improvement in the SERPS.
- wyldfire 11y agoI think the question may be regarding indexing HN itself, not the sites-linked-to. If I wanted to find discussion about "what would a horizon look like ... " by searching those terms, would reddit be favored because of those terms in the URL?
- siquick 11y agoIt depends on a multitude of factors but a huge weighting will be given to the page with the largest number of high quality links pointing to the site. Notice i said 'high quality'... The URL structure isn't always that important, but it helps.
- wyldfire 11y ago> The URL structure isn't always that important, but it helps. If that's the case then all else aside the answer to the question being asked is, "Yes, there is an impact" and perhaps "but it's not significant enough to justify changing HN"
- dragonbonheur 11y agoHN has a search service that does not use Google. Use that instead. Or from Google use "site:news.ycombinator.com" after your keywords to restrict google searches to HN.
- wyldfire 11y agoI'll concede that the goal of the asker ( a_small_island) is not crystal clear but I think you should re-read what's being asked. I doubt it's "I wish someone could tell me how to search for things on HN" more likely it's "Why did HN do it this way? Wouldn't it have been better this other way? Or perhaps is there nothing at all to be gained?" IOW the goal is to understand the motivation behind the different approaches between reddit and HN.
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