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I frequently find lots of good content on quora. It may be a bad company, service, whatever. But it's definitely more than just "a search engine optimization sc
by bananamerica 7y ago
I frequently find lots of good content on quora. It may be a bad company, service, whatever. But it's definitely more than just "a search engine optimization scam".
I could apply similar reasoning to Medium. I don't like Medium at all, but it obviously houses a bunch of quality content.
- wpietri 7y agoThe two things aren't opposed. Having written a bunch of stuff there, I can't argue that it doesn't have some good content. And I could imagine it being quite profitable eventually, because it is very much built as bait for long-tail search. But the reason I'd call it a scam is that the people who wrote that content are not going to get paid in proportion to the work. Of course, giving the way quality has dropped over the years, it may also end up being a viewer-side scam the way many other search-focused content companies end up being.
- bananamerica 7y agoI didn't mean to reduce it to a false dichotomy. OP used the expression "nothing more". I just wanted to point out that, while Quora and Medium are probably scams, but they clearly are more than mere scams.
- tonystubblebine 7y agoFWIW, with regards to Medium, they changed their payment terms so that SEO is almost not rewarded at all.