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Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Post by indymike »

rafram wrote: post #20

As with most supposed Google killers, it suffers from the small issue of being terrible. Right now I'm in Los Angeles and looking to buy a roll of film. When I search for "where to buy film in los angeles": - Google gives me three top Maps results, all small photo stores relevant to my search, a Yelp results page, some relevant reddit discussions with recommendations, and then sites for some individual businesses. -…

> Yep gives TripAdvisor results for movie theaters, Fandango, ZipRecruiter results for film jobs, film studios, and some more theaters (and also an article about rent control for some reason).

So, the search engine from an SEO company is actually showing results from industries that are highly SEO optimized. (Movies, Jobs, Travel are all huge SEO consumers).

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Post by [deleted] »

Goronmon wrote: post #120
richardpetersen wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SEO is a skill set that helps algorithms understand content. Google even lists it as a required skill for some of their roles: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/83882884131103430-pr...

Google even lists it as a required skill for some of their roles: I don't know if I'd use Google as a great example of sleazy vs non-sleazy...

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Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Post by dazc »

botsbreeder wrote: post #151
dazc wrote: post #148

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What's stopping you, they crawl your site day and night and sell the data they have harvested at a vast profit. They don't even respect robots.txt.

AhrefsBot respects robots.txt. Details are here: https://ahrefs.com/robot

Blocking the user agent in my WAF is the only thing that actually worked. So, I'm sure you're right and I am just a random outlying case.

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

#194

Post by nijave »

ButterWashed wrote: post #3
metadat wrote: post #2

Check out those jobs, Ocaml in Singapore? Intriguing.

In the DevOps/OnCall role you have to be prepared to deal with "all kinds of software bugs and hardware deviations on a daily basis" which doesn't sound like a barrel of laughs.

"24/7"

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

#195

Post by ffhhj »

ricardo81 wrote: post #184
ffhhj wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Something went wrong" That's a way to say there was an error. There shouldn't be, search that on Google.

Might just have been their servers being overworked when you looked. Results are returned now.

It was fixed.

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

#196

Post by freediver »

bryans wrote: post #143
freediver wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems we read the same article and understood it differently. The announcement post said : "Say Anne from Kentucky helps 4,000 people learn how to build container gardens via her Wordpress blog every month. She would receive $1,000 monthly from the search engine in return." To me this sounds like the idea of this model is to allow an average person doing casual blogging to make significant income? Given this premi…

Removing the context[1] from that quote feels disingenuous, at best, and purporting that they even made any claims about their product is approaching libel. The 2019 personal blog post you're referring to is a general (albeit flawed) analysis of how a Google profit share might work for the top content creators based on guesstimated information from YouTube revenues. They were very clear about all of this and plainly…

I was under the wrong impression that this [1] was the announcement blog post for Yep. As I read the comments here initially, many mentioned that blog post and I did not pay attention to the date on it and just took it for granted. [2]

It seems that the 'announcement' post I was referring to isn't fresh announcement for Yep but a 2019 blog post by the founder explaining the concept.

In any case my math was meant to be a critique of the proposed model, not any particular product, and I still stand by that analysis. There was no malice intended.

Thanks for holding me accountable.

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/investor-money-vs-public-interest-di...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31615194

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

#197

Post by DarylZero »

Havoc wrote: post #65
thyrox wrote: post #12

Ahrefs is the biggest reason why Google results are so bad nowadays. While they call it SEO, this site gives you the very metrics which every so called SEOer uses to game Google search results (and it's very good tbh). I hope they are ready to face the seo monster they have created and yep can't be gamed as easily.

>this site gives you the very metrics which every so called SEOer uses to game Google search results Seems a little harsh. People would be trying to game the search results with or without the metrics. They're just selling a shovel though. The ad industry and its money is the root cause behind the gold rush, not the shovel seller.

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Post by rchaud »

wonderbore wrote: post #149
rickhaasteren wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was SEO 15 years ago. If you think that still works, you’ll be disappointed.

I don’t think it’s how it works because I see that crap daily in footers, especially in the travel industry. Open any hotel listing on TripAdvisor and count the “[something] in [location]” links in the footer.

Travel, huh? I wonder if clickbaity links show up for things like life insurance, weight loss, and personal injury lawyers.

Don't blame SEO because capitalism necessitated that businesses use whatever means possible to get their product in front of your face.

Re: Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs

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Post by rchaud »

wonderbore wrote: post #182
rickhaasteren wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“I saw some hotel websites with location links in their footer, so that must be what the SEO industry is all about” Sure.

You don’t get it. “Link building” is not 2007 stuff. You find 2022 articles with that. If you don’t believe it it’s not my problem.

yeah but the 2022 article was written in 2010. It just has a "Last Updated: 2022" because Google is dumb and falls for that every time.
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