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Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mi

Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes. Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.

sk5t 14y ago
I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.
- newman314 14y ago
  Agreed. If we are going to "pump" up the SEO factor, things like https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 for "Car is not starting" would not be in place. Instead, maybe something like https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold this site up as heavily SEO optimized. Nothing against the company as they are a young company just not a good example IMO.
  - jcampbell1 14y ago
    I don't think pumping is necessary. Their site is not a solution to the general case of "car is not starting", thus should not have a page for that. That would be gaming google, which is fine, but a bad first move for a startup. I'll now call out YC companies to prove my point. I went to the techcrunch demo day round 1, and have a look at http://vastrm.com/ http://vastrm.com/ It is a complete SEO disaster. No reasonable advisor would have said that was a good idea for an e-commerce company.
  - artag 14y ago
    we are getting there :). more like yourmechanic.com/problem/car-is-not-starting - some place where you can all the common reasons etc. There are a lot of things we need to improve.
- jcampbell1 14y ago
  I agree that I should be down-voted to the extreme. I chose the vagueness because calling out individual YC companies is now considered bad form. I was trying to be polite. Compare their SEO strategy to a YC company that repairs iPhones, or the one that sells cars. If you don't know the urls, send me an email and I'll tell you the ones I am talking about. The YC anti-SEO pattern exists, it is just not polite to call out SEO mistakes, because if anyone builds anything, then we must be supportive.
novaleaf 14y ago
why not say what those "obvious SEO suck" are, instead of just being inflammatory?

sk5t 14y ago

I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.

newman314 14y ago
Agreed. If we are going to "pump" up the SEO factor, things like https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 for "Car is not starting" would not be in place. Instead, maybe something like https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold this site up as heavily SEO optimized. Nothing against the company as they are a young company just not a good example IMO.
- jcampbell1 14y ago
  I don't think pumping is necessary. Their site is not a solution to the general case of "car is not starting", thus should not have a page for that. That would be gaming google, which is fine, but a bad first move for a startup. I'll now call out YC companies to prove my point. I went to the techcrunch demo day round 1, and have a look at http://vastrm.com/ http://vastrm.com/ It is a complete SEO disaster. No reasonable advisor would have said that was a good idea for an e-commerce company.
- artag 14y ago
  we are getting there :). more like yourmechanic.com/problem/car-is-not-starting - some place where you can all the common reasons etc. There are a lot of things we need to improve.
jcampbell1 14y ago
I agree that I should be down-voted to the extreme. I chose the vagueness because calling out individual YC companies is now considered bad form. I was trying to be polite. Compare their SEO strategy to a YC company that repairs iPhones, or the one that sells cars. If you don't know the urls, send me an email and I'll tell you the ones I am talking about. The YC anti-SEO pattern exists, it is just not polite to call out SEO mistakes, because if anyone builds anything, then we must be supportive.

novaleaf 14y ago

why not say what those "obvious SEO suck" are, instead of just being inflammatory?