ddemchuk

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by ddemchuk 16y ago
I hire writers to do things similar to what you described all the time, though I don't have them push the boundaries as much as you described. My suggestion? For every article you get an order for, write an article for your own sites. Build
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
it just seems to me that there is a gaggle of very obvious failing points that can easily become the focus of your guys' attempts to clean up the serps. Buy Viagra is probably the oldest known keyword to be subjected to blackhat seo techniq
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
I'm sorry, but WHAT?!?! 1) They are not a startup. They're over 4 years old. They have officially passed the starting phase 2) They have not monetized since graduating into the big boy businesses phase. Riding the coattails of VC's for year
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
It doesn't appear that Cutts & Co. are looking to address any of the more popular blackhat link building methods that all popular SEO bloggers continually say "work but you shouldn't use them yourself because they're bad". Until the key
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
shameless affiliate link drop man, come on now
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
That's exactly what they're doing, this is most likely an autoblog. Its an older content spam technique that works surprisingly well
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
I think identifying low quality content is important, yes. But the topic I've brought up is dealing with somewhat decent quality content (all of the guides do explain how to tie shoelaces) that are individually targeting subtle longtail key
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
The Adwords Content Network needs the content farms
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Matt, thanks for responding. I guess I'm not exactly sure where to end this back and forth, but your latest response does open up a few questions of mine. I've never argued that running Adsense helps a site rank higher, I know that it doesn
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
For context purposes: "I was referring to how Google should respond to content farms. Historically, Google has been willing to take manual action on webspam. With the rest of search quality and ranking, Google tries to use algorithms as muc
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
to be fair, he's polluting Google (and possibly other search engines). Without Google returning his site as one of the possible results for that keyphrase, you'd have no idea his site existed. Most people conflate "the internet" with what G
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
I am not opposed to the content mills per se, mainly because I think that they aren't doing anything "destructive" IE comment spamming, phishing, etc. They're using the tools and data that Google freely provides to produce laser targeted co
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Sounds more like a semantic excuse to justify the proliferation of adsense riddled spam content mills that are chasing keyword search volume and making Google a hefty sum each year rather than a legitimate conundrum.
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Nigeria is one of the last countries I would ever trust with any sort of credit card information. However, if namecheap can nab these as an option, I'll probably snag a few of them
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
who is paying for the hosting on this thing I wonder?
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
facebook has ridiculously useful demographic targeting information. Twitter is a little bit more messy and it would be trickier to target as accurately, so the value is less there
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
groupon's business revolves entirely around selling things, with limited social aspects to make it enjoyable. Twitter is literally the exact opposite. There's no clear way to monetization for them.
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Reading this makes me lose all faith in business, startups, and humanity in general. 5 years later and they aren't profitable, aren't stable, and aren't really innovating anymore. It's like they're dying to become the pets.com of the late 2
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
The vast majority of the things he was trying to do are outside of the planned usecase of this device. It's like if someone was disappointed at the lack of photoshop on the iPad...it simply wasn't designed for that.
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Then you should probably accept the same login options as Hacker News does to ensure acceptance
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
this a classic seo content generation move, called mad lib sites. You create a templated article, with variables for each piece of dynamic content. Usually, you will also create "spun" content so that each article created with the madlib te
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
looks like we're crossing paths on another internet community :)
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Google already analyzes backlinks in their context to determine how relevant the anchor text is to the topic of the page. Determining sentiment (the topic of the NYT piece) is considerably harder though, because it would allow for spammers
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
to say this is annoying is an understatement
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
ad networks thrive on volume because of the margins involved, so it's difficult to succeed without locking in large players, especially because high volume sites are probably already leveraging existing networks.
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
that would require a fundamental paradigm shift from what they currently use to determine the ranking order of search results. Backlinks as a ranking factor will remain a core feature for the indefinite future I would imagine. I would say t
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Piwik is pretty great, nice for being free. You can definitely install that and write up a script to attach to their api, it's pretty easy to use. Please please please host your analytics on a completely different server though. Analytics i
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
Why do people take the time to digitally bicker with veteran trolls? We're all professionals, this isn't something you want your name attached to on the "nothing is ever forgotten" internet.
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
you're converting at a relatively normal rate, right around 1% (it can go up to 3% or more with this sort of product)...you need a hell of a lot more traffic. Lots of kids take O Chem, start promoting on Facebook or something. Maybe even do
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by ddemchuk 16y ago
any experts exchange result has the actual responses down at the bottom of the screen when you scroll down. They aren't "gaming" anything, the content is plainly there, just far below the fold. Your comment validates my belief that most peo

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