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I see SEO as a make work project to support Wall Street valuations. We have SEO content being consumed by content indexing bots for traffic.

• echelon 2y ago
  > I see SEO as a make work project to support Wall Street valuations. You're missing the whole middle part about users and revenue. SEO alone does not a Wall Street valuation make. Maybe the indictment here should instead be about discovery and how we share ideas and utility with one another.
  • detourdog 2y ago
    I think discovery by word of mouth is a much better than SEO. I also believe that just because money is changing hands doesn’t indicate productivity.
  • fmbb 2y ago
    > You're missing the whole middle part about users and revenue. SEO alone does not a Wall Street valuation make. Are they? Or are you over-estimating that part?
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > Are they? Do you have an example of a company whose valuation is driven principally by eyeballs? Not metrics tied to eyeballs, e.g. ad revenue. Just eyeballs.
      • detourdog 2y ago
        Ad revenue is part of hot potato game. The participants pick a metric and take sides arguing valuation while passing revenue.
        • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
          > participants pick a metric and take sides arguing valuation while passing revenue Do you have an example where the metric is eyeballs? This was a thing once! But to my knowledge, it isn't the sole basis of any company's valuation today.