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Tragic Death of Bubbles in the Ghetto
- anigbrowl 16y agoAnatomy of a Headline
- yakto 16y agoYo, what's the story with your "Information you might find handy (other sites I have worked on)" section at the bottom of your right column? You really worked on all that stuff? Honest question, because it looks like paid seo spam links to me.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoYes. All those sites were hand-coded and written by me or my wife. I'm both a programmer and a former freelance writer and have been playing around with writing various pieces of content --- starting off with micro-sites and working towards a more mixed app/site design template. I don't do paid links or any of that stuff. I just like creating stuff that people might find useful.
- yakto 16y agoGotcha. No offense. I guess seeing several variations of anchor text pointing to the same urls set my spidey-sense off. Just my unsolicited opinion: it comes across as a little spammish, vs. a simple list of your your other stuff with one link per source. But if the seo gods are smiling on you, who am I to object. ;)
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoI get a lot of shit for those sites -- some fellow HN'ers even told me not to admit to authoring them. But screw 'em, I spent a lot of time on each one, and as crappy as some of them are, they're my crap, thank you very much. :) Hackers have a very finely-tuned bullshit detector. I find I can set it off by accident very easily (which is another good argument about just being as honest as I can about these things) I try to explain everything I'm doing and why in blog entries, so no surprises. You should have seen the post where I tried to explain that scientific research showed that pictures of non-threatening buxom women could double or more click-through response rates across all demographics. I thought they were going to shoot me for that one.
- unknownguy 16y agoI had to laugh, thanks.