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> 4) Organic postings and SEO? The big plumber app is way ahead of you. And 100 other worse apps clog up the listings. No one sees your posts. This is especial
by nickjj 7y ago
> 4) Organic postings and SEO? The big plumber app is way ahead of you. And 100 other worse apps clog up the listings. No one sees your posts.
This is especially interesting in the world of tech.
Because sites like digitalocean post a massive amount of really in depth tutorials. Much more than any single person can churn out. So as a tech person interested in even giving away free tech info, it's a really uphill SEO battle. You can't compete with 65,000+ articles (based on Googling for this: site:digitalocean.com/community).
- jacquesm 7y agoIf you are giving your tech info away you are not competing with anybody.
- nickjj 7y agoI think it's still competition because other sites take away potential traffic from your site. That's just the nature of how search engines work, but search engines also favor big sites with many pages and tons of quality back links. I'm not saying sites like digitalocean or stackoverflow are bad, but from an SEO perspective it's not going to be easy to out rank them in most topics where you're writing about the same or similar things -- especially not in the case of digitalocean because they are selling something, and they have a ton of $ to promote their site everywhere.