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Ask HN: Overcoming engineer/developer bias against SEO
51 points by randfish 16y ago|81 comments
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by randfish 16y ago
I think the word you want is "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization), which refers to the organic side of search marketing. Although, technically, SEM should cover both paid (PPC) and organic, most folks use it to describe paid search exclusivel
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by randfish 16y ago
I'm largely non-technical. Written maybe a total of 50 lines of PHP and consider myself knowledgeable about but unable to personally execute 90%+ of engineering/development work. The challenge was primarily that I had an underperforming tec
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by randfish 16y ago
It could be anonymous on your end?... I like Matt a lot, too, but his opinions (at least, those he publicly offers) are well known and well publicized. It would be great to hear other voices. If not, how about if/when you ever leave the tea
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by randfish 16y ago
Moultano - I have a strange request, but one I hope you'll take seriously. I think this issue is very important - to Google, to web searchers, to businesses seeking to be found by Google and even to less scrupulous web operators. I'd love t
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by randfish 16y ago
In 2010, search engine traffic continued to rise aggressively. More searches have been conducted each month, more people are using search engines each month. The growth may not be as stratospheric as Facebook's, but the rise of social media
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by randfish 16y ago
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with at least the "useful" adjective in this statement. I would concur that if the click-through-rate and impression data were accurate or consistent with other data sources that claim to show the same
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by randfish 17y ago
We did exactly this at SEOmoz - built an index that's primarily focused on link data. It's accessible through a free API - www.seomoz.org/api - up to 1 million calls a month free and more at fairly low rates. Our index isn't quite Google-si
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by randfish 17y ago
Well - we certainly have many times more Fortune 500s who are subscribers to the software than we ever served with consulting. And I'd say that getting testimonials and word-of-mouth comes much more with software users than consulting clien
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by randfish 17y ago
Hey byrneseyeview - it's funny you mention this, because we found that the "branding" of SEOmoz as a consulting business from 2003-2006 really hurts us in the product/software marketplace. We transitioned revenue streams in 2007, and had mo
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by randfish 17y ago
Absolutely! I can't promise we can divulge everything we're doing, but I know that Ben (who runs these models) would love outside opinions and critiques. You can reach him via Ben at SEOmoz.org.
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by randfish 17y ago
Actually, that's inaccurate. Please do read through the entire post. Although it begins with correlation data, the conclusion reached halfway through the post is that more sophisticated models are required, which is where the machine learni
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Machine Learning Applied to Google's Rankings(seomoz.org)
21 points by randfish 17y ago|10 comments
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by randfish 17y ago
I left this on the blog post (it's awaiting moderation), but think it's relevant here as well: Shay - I think it's great that you're thinking more about SEO, but I'm really concerned about the advice you're dispensing in some of these point
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by randfish 17y ago
If you haven't already, you should check out the labs stuff - http://www.seomoz.org/labs - which do things no other tools (that I'm aware of at least) can do :-) And yeah, I know I'm biased, but I'm also very excited to have an article of
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by randfish 17y ago
byrne - I think you might have misread the piece; we were profitable when we took investment the first time and are profitable again now. The "dip" was during a period when we burned the investment capital to grow faster. And yeah - our rat
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by randfish 17y ago
We've been talking about potentially hosting something like this at our offices (SEOmoz). However, while I love Hacker News (the article content), I get the sense that much of this site's audience is very anti-SEO, and that bias might preve
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by randfish 18y ago
On subdirectories vs. subfolders, see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdom... - essentially, it's about benefiting from the authority/trust/link metrics assigned to a root/sub domain rather than starting a new one.
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by randfish 18y ago
I left a comment on Gabriel's blog, but if you're a startup building a site and doing SEO, be careful not to take all of this advice, particularly #9 and #13, but #6 is also not entirely wise. p.s. Yes, technically I fit into the "someone s
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by randfish 18y ago
I've got a lot of empathy for you, Tom. We all say dumb stuff, and the web makes it very easy to screw up without thinking through. Kudos to you for the apology and the transparency. First time I'm checking out Ticketstumbler, BTW - looks i
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by randfish 18y ago
Doh! Wish I had heard about this earlier... I have plans tonight, but I live right near there, so if you do one again I'll definitely try to make it over.
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The Most Valuable Lesson I Learned Pursuing a Finance Major(seomoz.org)
20 points by randfish 18y ago|10 comments
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Comparing Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask & Cuil with Actual Queries & Data(seomoz.org)
12 points by randfish 18y ago|4 comments
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by randfish 18y ago
Wait - the title doesn't include Digg, so how exactly is it misleading? Maybe you're being sarcastic and my sarcasm detector just isn't well-tuned.
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3rd Annual Web 2.0 Awards - Multiple Y Combinator Winners(seomoz.org)
3 points by randfish 18y ago|0 comments
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by randfish 19y ago
seekely - I'm the author of the post and am very sorry for being condescending. That wasn't my intent and on re-reading, I can see that it came across that way. I offer my apology. I was writing a bit more emotionally than I usually do, and
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Advice for Startup CEOs(seomoz.org)
26 points by randfish 19y ago|2 comments
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by randfish 19y ago
Great to see you as well, Dharmesh, and please do ping me when you launch your new social site. I'd love to get the SEOmoz community involved.
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by randfish 19y ago
I'd love to see an all-entrepreneurship version of the Reddit/YCombinator service. There are a lot of us Ycombinator outsiders reading this from a marketing/business management perspective who'd love to get more of that content.
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Why Submitting Web Content for Copyright Protection is Critical (and how to do it)(seomoz.org)
3 points by randfish 19y ago|2 comments

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