matterk

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   by matterk 14y ago

   IIRC about 40% of diggs' traffic came from Google. But when they changed their algo ~2 years ago to favor original/source content, our overall traffic dropped by about 30%. The value of that traffic in advertising dollars was significant,
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   by matterk 14y ago

   IIRC we used nofollow on stories in upcoming. Once they were promoted to popular, the nofollow was removed. This was done mainly to prevent people from trying to gain juice by submitting spam stories.
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   LinkedIn: Creating A Low Latency Change Data Capture System With Databus(highscalability.com)

   11 points by matterk 15y ago|0 comments