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by a5seo 16y ago
Never going to happen. Welcome to a complex adaptive system that is SEO where you can never rewind history to pinpoint exactly what you did to get a result. At least not any more than an economist can tell you anything.
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Matt Cutts on How to Prevent Scrapers from Outranking You with Your Own Content(youtube.com)
5 points by a5seo 16y ago|1 comments
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by a5seo 16y ago
There's a big difference between what you're critiquing (marketing messaging) and what blackhats are focused on manipulating (links). Your diagnosis, "if you can't make insurance or incontinence products sexy you're in the wrong game," woul
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Whitehat SEO is a Joke(krisroadruck.com)
14 points by a5seo 16y ago|10 comments
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by a5seo 16y ago
Googlebot is a not a browser. It's a distinct "user" of your site with special needs. Think of Google as a retarded 30 year old user of site. If 67% of your users relied on the opinion of that single user, you'd damn sure do 5 mins worth
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by a5seo 16y ago
i have a friend who worked there. he said they had a foot high stack of letters from apartments threatening to sue them because they refused to delete reviews.
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by a5seo 16y ago
for now... CL will shut them down. or maybe they won't. investing your time in enhancing their data is a complete crapshoot.
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by a5seo 16y ago
i don't think it's just envy that makes entrepreneurs mad. CL is also quite litigious (but in a hypocritical capricious way), which is generally out of step with the rest of data-is-free, api-driven world.
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by a5seo 16y ago
seriously??? can your mom successfully post and ad on CL, including verifying her email? and can she bold the important words in the ad? even the newspaper classifieds, as dumb as they were, made that easy for the most basic user.
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by a5seo 16y ago
tl;dr search engines reframe the types of questions we ask. And prior to the Internet, the physical limits of information didn't equally determine the types of questions we asked?
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by a5seo 16y ago
cute... $300/mo per month subscription = $10/day. bleh... a subscription is hardly the same as personal coaching.
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by a5seo 16y ago
that's par for the course with SEOBook. Aaron is brilliant, but his commentaries are never direct. For example, read some of the stuff he's written about eHow-- it's hard to tell if he loves them or hates Google, and ultimately where he c
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by a5seo 16y ago
Anyone know how Zenedy.com (YC W10) is doing with their "unviable" SEO content farming strategy?
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by a5seo 16y ago
FeeFighters is doing a bang up job with link bait. They will start to reap the rewards in 12-18 mos. It seems like the people who dislike SEO either a) high a high burn rate and can't wait 18 mos to get a payoff, or b) have investors who c
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The Legal Magic Bullet That Protects Twitter And Yelp(m.paidcontent.org)
2 points by a5seo 16y ago|0 comments
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by a5seo 16y ago
Actually, the point about selling a bootstrapped venture was that you'd presumably do it early in your career (hence the low price) so it's an accomplishment for the resume, the same way Stanford and HBS are. My argument was that Stanford a
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by a5seo 16y ago
In my experience, the problem is the investors. Most investors in startups can't stomach the unpredictability, in timing OR payoff of investments in SEO. In my case, it took 5 years of bootstrapping to hit 1M uniques per month from organic
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by a5seo 16y ago
re: links, have you heard of Mint.com? Check out their infographics as and example of aggressive, but high quality and legit link building. The one they did about 'how big is a trillion?' got hundreds of links. Here's another peice of bri
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Ask HN: Stanford, HBS, or Sell Company
6 points by a5seo 16y ago|9 comments
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Getting accepted to Stanford for undergrad
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by a5seo 16y ago
Getting accepted to HBS for b-school
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by a5seo 16y ago
Bootstrapping and selling a startup for $10M (assume 100% ownership)
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Google Content Farm Update- How Does Google Determine "Trust"(blog.searchenginewatch.com)
7 points by a5seo 16y ago|0 comments
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TLDR of Buffett's Annual Letter by Sandy Leeds, Finance Professor at UT-Austin(leedsonfinance.com)
1 points by a5seo 16y ago|1 comments
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by a5seo 16y ago
Really interested WHY eHow wasn't hit harder, especially compared to Wisegeek. Maybe eHow tends to rank for more obscure, less competitive stuff than Wisegeek... So the more search volume for a keyword, the more the algo punishes a content
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Suite101 Lost 77% of Its First Page Rankings According to seoClarity Analysis(seoclarity.net)
2 points by a5seo 16y ago|0 comments
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by a5seo 16y ago
"why did startups raise so much VC at the end of the 1990s" VCs pushed them hard to get users at any cost and ipo, since you could do so easily without profits.
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by a5seo 16y ago
I don't see any major dip on WiseGeek, which is directly-measured traffic: http://www.quantcast.com/wisegeek.com
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by a5seo 16y ago
see my comment above about the 164 eHow keywords I started tracking last week in anticipation of something like this.
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by a5seo 16y ago
So I started tracking rankings on 164 of eHow's top keywords (selected based on SEMRush report of their most-valuable, SearchVol * CPC). Anyway, here's the downward movement since the algo started rolling out: http://www.google.com/search?

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