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by toumhi 15y ago
OK, HN front page effect, the server crapped out. Any advice on how to handle this? Cannot even SSH on the server.
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by toumhi 15y ago
It's actually a wake-up call to blog more: it helps realizing you can't be blogging once a month and expect any amount of traffic. To find what works with your audience you have to keep writing. Somewhat related: I've recently purchased the
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Django Settings for Production and Development: Best Practices(sparklewise.com)
97 points by toumhi 15y ago|33 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
I second that. Pointing out what a good SEO strategy is and how it opposes the points described in the article would have been helpful. If somebody interested in improving their SEO skills should not read well-known SEO blogs then what does
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by toumhi 15y ago
Yeah, that's the idea. However personnally I would link from the home page ("Inside the business" chronicles). It doesn't have to be a big link, could be in the footer for example. I don't have metrics for that but I think pages that are no
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by toumhi 15y ago
No, not only. You can host software packages and tutorials on your product website. For example, patio11 of HN fame has an article about Rails SEO Tips on his product website http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/rails-seo-tips.htm Eve
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by toumhi 15y ago
Good article, I wanted to write something about it too(web developer with strong interest in SEO here). I'd say in the end it's more an introduction to SEO than it is advice for programmers about SEO. I'll detail 2 things she overlooked in
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It's a Long Road Ahead: Freelancing to Keep on Bootstrapping a Business(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
I'm always surprised when I see that kind of websites with no clear calls to action. They seem to violate all good landing page optimization guidelines, yet they are multi-million dollar businesses. Are they leaving money on the table by no
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by toumhi 15y ago
Rules are meant to be broken :-) 1) You must consume in order to be exposed to new things. If you're just producing you will tend to be limited, the world is much larger than what you're producing 2) having BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)
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by toumhi 15y ago
Don't you think KissMetrics provides a valuable service? A startup doesn't need to be focused on saving baby seals to improve people's lives.
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Build, Rank, Sell: 7 Lessons Learned From My First Website Sale(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey Patrick, I could be interested (longtime python & django coder here). Couldnt locate your email though. Mine is in my profile. Feel free to contact me
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How To Market and SEO a Niche Website: a Case Study(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
I don't really see the problem. Code academy lowers the threshold for people to get to try programming. They can after that find their own ideas, select a technology, and start to hack. It's less daunting to do that once you have a better g
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by toumhi 15y ago
It's not always as simple as "simply finding what you love" as written in "Forget Self-Improvement" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605242 )
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Doing things you don’t like(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|1 comments
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Procrastination battles(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
I haven't actually bought anything or sold anything there. But I check it once in a while to see how fast people have developed profitable websites, in which niche, using which link building methods, etc. IMO it's valuable knowledge for som
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by toumhi 15y ago
I quitted my job 1 year ago and basically set out to make my own living on the Internet. I went from making an adsense-supported website offering free gift certificate templates to a Body Mass Index calculator with affiliate revenue, an onl
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by toumhi 15y ago
While there are (sometimes) better ways to monetize your traffic, Adsense is an easy to deploy, set-and-forget solution. So I wouldn't call it a ripoff :-)
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Ask HN: How do you work with web designers?
2 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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Do you need Internet to work as a developer?(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
Great piece. I agree that revenue brings momentum, without it it's hard to know where you're going or if you're doing things right. I'd say especially as a technical single founder (me), it's all too easy to focus on building features and h
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey Tjerk, welcome on HN ;-) You're right sometimes peaks can be coverage from other websites and drops can reveal a problem with a website however here it's no such case. It's pure seasonality, which is why I felt compelled to write about
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by toumhi 15y ago
Easy tiger. Maybe it's a problem of vocabulary (non-native english speaker here) with "People favor doing things at the very last possible moment." ? What I meant was that of all days, people buy on the very last. Which makes sense accordin
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Numbers Don’t Lie: What Website Analytics Tell About Human Behavior(sparklewise.com)
13 points by toumhi 15y ago|10 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
Bootstrapping solo founder here. It's kind of overwhelming if all you do needs to be valued at $1000/hour. It sounds more like it could be used as an excuse not to do anything: "I can't figure something I can do that would be valued $1000/h
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by toumhi 15y ago
evolution is not about adaptability of a species, it's about adaptability of individuals (it's not a centralized decision taken for the well-being of a species, but rather a consequence of individuals having more chances to pass their genes
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by toumhi 15y ago
hehe good - but it seems you eluded my questions ;-)

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