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Why is SEO'd site bad? The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".

oaktowner 10y ago
yeah, they're paying for it with advertising. So it seems like a natural choice.
SamBam 10y ago
And how are people supposed to find it if it's not SEO-optimized? Only Hacker News folks in-the-know? It seems like a really odd point to bring up.
- Spivak 10y ago
  I think most of the time it's because everyone has experienced getting low quality results from SEO optimized sites. It's getting to the point where one cannot shop or search for product recommendations on popular search engines because you'll get nothing but toptenreallyspecificproduct.com or absolutebestproduct.com. Optimizing for search rankings doesn't say anything directly about any given site, but it's generally a signal for low quality content that would not rank highly without such optimizations.
  - jdavis703 10y ago
    The only time I use Google to find a product is when I know need something but don't know what it's called exactly. Otherwise I just go to the relevant e-commerce site to skip past all the BS.
  - justinlardinois 10y ago
    Believe it or not, having quality content that's presented simply with clean URLs is also a good search engine optimization.
- Kiro 10y ago
  > It seems like a really odd point to bring up. How so? I pointed it out because I think people in here are interested in SEO and I wanted to highlight that this page is a good example of effective SEO. They do things right. It's obviously an SEO focused site so NOT bringing up SEO would be odd if anything. It's more or less why this site exists.
Kiro 10y ago
> Why is SEO'd site bad? I didn't say it was bad. > The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions". Yes, like it should. However, a lot of titles would be "good" but this is clearly constructed to fetch most of these kind of queries. You would think people search by using more condensen queries but I'm sure "how many days until X" has been researched and shown to be the most common way. People often ask their search engine like they're asking a real person, even if it's more verbose.

oaktowner 10y ago

yeah, they're paying for it with advertising. So it seems like a natural choice.

SamBam 10y ago

And how are people supposed to find it if it's not SEO-optimized? Only Hacker News folks in-the-know? It seems like a really odd point to bring up.

Spivak 10y ago
I think most of the time it's because everyone has experienced getting low quality results from SEO optimized sites. It's getting to the point where one cannot shop or search for product recommendations on popular search engines because you'll get nothing but toptenreallyspecificproduct.com or absolutebestproduct.com. Optimizing for search rankings doesn't say anything directly about any given site, but it's generally a signal for low quality content that would not rank highly without such optimizations.
- jdavis703 10y ago
  The only time I use Google to find a product is when I know need something but don't know what it's called exactly. Otherwise I just go to the relevant e-commerce site to skip past all the BS.
- justinlardinois 10y ago
  Believe it or not, having quality content that's presented simply with clean URLs is also a good search engine optimization.
Kiro 10y ago
> It seems like a really odd point to bring up. How so? I pointed it out because I think people in here are interested in SEO and I wanted to highlight that this page is a good example of effective SEO. They do things right. It's obviously an SEO focused site so NOT bringing up SEO would be odd if anything. It's more or less why this site exists.

Kiro 10y ago

> Why is SEO'd site bad? I didn't say it was bad. > The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions". Yes, like it should. However, a lot of titles would be "good" but this is clearly constructed to fetch most of these kind of queries. You would think people search by using more condensen queries but I'm sure "how many days until X" has been researched and shown to be the most common way. People often ask their search engine like they're asking a real person, even if it's more verbose.