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I'm amazed at the number of startups about startups.
No but this is such a pattern in human history. Don't fight war, sell the weapons. Don't mine bitcoin, sell the cards. Don't start a startup, start a meta-startup (startup about startups). Easy $$$! Basically be the parasitic side-liner supplying to the often-fruitless follies of mankind.
How is this SEO spam on the front page?
I like how SEO articles like this one are trying so desperately to not seem like SEO scumlording anymore due to everybody realising over the past few years that it's mainly a very grimy/scummy industry full of fraud and grubbers. Go look at the google trend for "SEO" [1] (isn't very statistically rigorous, but y'know...). [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...
Submitting to show HN, Crunchbase and /r/programming will require 3 dramatically different entries and info. I don't believe that's achievable for $89 unless you want to do it badly. What cost your reputation?
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I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice. You should be very wary about doing that. Some of the link in the list are news sites (eg Mashable). If someone at a news site sees you're spamming them they'll be a lot less likely to cover your startup favourably in the future. While you might get some 'backlink juice' out of it, you could also be burning some very valuable bri…
I don't think the chance is high that someone is going to NOT cover my company because they remember that some months prior I submitted a link to their site.
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I like how SEO articles like this one are trying so desperately to not seem like SEO scumlording anymore due to everybody realising over the past few years that it's mainly a very grimy/scummy industry full of fraud and grubbers. Go look at the google trend for "SEO" [1] (isn't very statistically rigorous, but y'know...). [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...
Isn't this just a minor pivot of now obsolete SEO directory spam? Submitting to show HN, Crunchbase and /r/programming will require 3 dramatically different entries and info. I don't believe that's achievable for $89 unless you want to do it badly. What cost your reputation?
EDIT: I understand your comment now, yes it is. How this startup got funded I have no idea, it's a decade-old SEO "sh*tlording" technique :/
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Interesting, I actually found the $89 a bargain given how long it will take to just create accounts on all these services before I can submit anything. That alone will take hours. My worry is just that this service will quickly get marked as a spammer and probably blocked or downvoted as a poster in many places.
Agreed. $89 is basically 89 cents per submission. My time is worth a lot more than that. I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
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Agreed. $89 is basically 89 cents per submission. My time is worth a lot more than that. I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
Great deal. Until you get a Google Penguin penalty and have to spend $10k+ in employee time getting it corrected, disowning backlinks and so on.
It's a faulty way of seeing things, but businesses like that tend to have a fog around them. They don't see the icebergs coming.
Why do you think that my _particular_ audience frequents either of these directories? Entrepreneurs should go after their customers, first and foremost. Submitting to irrelevant directories is not only lost time. It's dangerous because it suggests that we are doing something useful and that we don't have to chase the real audience anymore.
I'm always wary of startup founders sharing startup launches to each other. Big red flag. Completely skews all advice/critique/reception.
Thousands of people use my website a week, apparently they dont care about 4s load times.
My actual audience has bothered me to create more content more frequently.
I'm amazed at the number of startups about startups.
obligatory HN comment about selling shovels in a gold rush No but this is such a pattern in human history. Don't fight war, sell the weapons. Don't mine bitcoin, sell the cards. Don't start a startup, start a meta-startup (startup about startups). Easy $$$! Basically be the parasitic side-liner supplying to the often-fruitless follies of mankind.