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by midef 8y ago
I weed out the products that have excessive fake reviews, above-average prices and some other interesting "tells" that I've discovered (e.g. the 4-star reviews are amended 1-star reviews that have been changed because the cus
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by midef 8y ago
I considered this and decided to withhold affiliate links for the first couple months of the site's existence. It didn't seem to make much of a difference one way or another.
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by midef 8y ago
Well said. The biggest problems these days stem from things like client-side rendering and making crawler-accessible versions of things that are using new technologies (like simple pagination for infinite scroll, etc.).
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by midef 8y ago
I didn't write any of that content for SEO purposes. In many cases, it's an opportunity to clear the air about misconceptions that people have (sometimes, dangerous misconceptions). Is there a specific page that you found useless?
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by midef 8y ago
Thanks for the encouragement and double thanks for emphasizing the word "believes." I work hard to make the content as short as possible while still being useful, but it's true that Google may not be able to see the value in
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by midef 8y ago
Thanks for detailed comments. Many of the design choices that I made for the site are polarizing (like the decision to include no images). Same goes for the content: My goal is to help people get in and out of the site in five minutes or le
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by midef 8y ago
I'm genuinely surprised that the site hasn't found more traction than it has. Don't get me wrong: I wasn't expecting to set the world on fire or outrank the big players, but I have seen young sites do a lot more with a l
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What If Google Doesn't Reward White Hat SEO?(johnwdefeo.com)
99 points by midef 8y ago|86 comments