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> They named their website PaloAltoDelivery.com in hopes that this would prompt the google engine to display their webpage favorably when people search for "Pal
by Jaruzel 6y ago
> They named their website PaloAltoDelivery.com in hopes that this would prompt the google engine to display their webpage favorably when people search for "Palo Alto Delivery." It worked. Half an hour of launching their page, they got their first phone call for a Thai Food order.
I don't know much about Doordash (I don't live in the US), but I find this sentence hard to believe. Launching a fresh new website with some keywords as the domain name, will not get you immediately ranked highly on Google, and certainly not within 30 minutes of 'launching the page'.
- beejiu 6y agoYou couldn't do it today, but possibly it would work 7 years ago.
- awillen 6y agoThis is exactly what I came here to say... there's just no way, right?
- spqr233 6y agodefinitely on your side. If I recall correctly, they posted flyers around Palo Alto, and that's how they get their first users to show up on their site.
- sukilot 6y agoThey likely ordered from themselves to create the origin story.