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by jwesley 18y ago
Add rel="nofollow" to the widget links and I'll believe your goal is to help people and not game the search results like everyone else. There is nothing wrong with optimizing for search traffic. Competition is all well and good. But your si
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by jwesley 18y ago
I was about to leave a comment about how this isn't really news. It feels like every search market share update for the past few years has been the same - Google gains, everyone else loses or stands still. I love Google's search product, bu
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by jwesley 18y ago
Another explanation might be an increase in Twitter spam. I can only speak for myself, but I've been getting tons a spammy followers over the past couple weeks. You'd think that the most popular accounts (like the ones highlighted in the ar
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by jwesley 18y ago
The thing that pisses me off about Mahalo is that Calacanis goes around claiming it's some type of innovative idea/technology and that everything thing they do is for the benefit of the users. It's a straight SEO play, along the lines of Ab
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by jwesley 18y ago
Now if all the Web 2.0 blogs can die along with it we can get some decent tech coverage again.
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I think the point of the article is that straight statistics like that are not always accurate. For example, what if a player allows the person he is guarding to score more points on average, but during the time is he is on floor, the oppos
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by jwesley 18y ago
Great article. As a basketball player in my youth, I always struggled with the dynamic of selfishness and selflessness inherent in the game and this was best attempt I've seen at explaining it. There really are so many way a player can help
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by jwesley 18y ago
I'm sure the scientists behind this are on top of that. Just does not make sense for someone writing an article to be part of the control group.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Something that insightful makes me upset at how pathetic the media is. Millions of dollars spent creating hundreds of hours of coverage, and all of it together will not be as informative as a blog post some guy wrote in an hour. Can't the n
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by jwesley 18y ago
I think HN has a few advantages that give it a fighting chance: 1. It's not a business, or at least a direct one, so the site owners are not focused on growing the audience infinitely. 2. It is not dependent on advertising revenue, so there
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by jwesley 18y ago
The publishing of these books has nothing to do with a need for information about Twitter. It's a ploy to make money off all mainstream people who hear about "that Twitter thingy" in the media.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Absolutely right. Mixx is miserable. If Digg can't manage to sell itself, what chance do 3rd rate copycats have? It doesn't even send significant traffic to stories on the front page. The only thing it's useful for is submitting your blog p
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by jwesley 18y ago
The more appropriate parallel would be "I made $2 million with a book".
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by jwesley 18y ago
John Chow's blog is such a joke. It exists to scam newbies. Shouldn't you be busy making money online?
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by jwesley 18y ago
I see karma as a way to motivate more activity on the site. It turns participating into a game that you can win, which gets people's competitive juices flowing. We all love measuring ourselves against other people.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Everyone CAN start a blog and use it to market their business. If that is the only marketing channel, attributing the success of the business to it is not that big of a stretch.
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by jwesley 18y ago
I wonder what Dan Lyons was thinking with his initial column. He's obviously a smart guy. He knows the blog landed him a book deal, his new job at Newsweek, and internet notoriety. He knows there is money to be made through and around blogg
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by jwesley 18y ago
Don't get all defensive bro. It's cool to get paid.
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How I SEOed my website to make more sales!
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Moral of the story: beg borrow and steal to get to the top of search results, if that traffic is valuable to you.
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by jwesley 18y ago
I usually pick a theme I want my site to have, like "education", then do a Google image search for the term to see how others have represented it with color. After getting a basic idea of what color I like I hand it off to the designer with
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by jwesley 18y ago
You are not the only one. There are a few companies with very similar services, like MoFuse. Is there anything your company offers that can differentiate you from them? If not you might have a hard time gaining traction against VC funded pl
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by jwesley 18y ago
Why do you keep the good domains private? I bet the affiliate commissions from showing off these domains would be much higher than the revenue from membership fees.
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No one is rushing out to register gibberish domains. If anyone wants too they have plenty of other opportunities to do so. Nearly all domains still available are not intrinsically valuable - they generate close to zero type-in traffic for s
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by jwesley 18y ago
Everyone here on HN is genius, so even if a few get knocked off there are plenty to step up and replace them.
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Yea, it's a total SEO play. Just look at the way they interlink their pages and shamelessly promote high search volume queries like video games.
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Anyone else feel the site is getting too self referential? I noticed the lag as well, but is this worthy of a devoted thread taking up space on the first page? The recent surge in self referential threads has felt Reddit-esque.
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I think the last point is the most important: "6. Everybody seemed to feel the web game has shifted to the higher level. A lot appeared to feel that small publishers and sites would start to be squeezed out of the market in the coming years

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