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Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by chc »

hugorodgerbrown wrote: post #65

Am I alone in finding the following quote profoundly depressing: "It cost Patrick $8.95 to buy [halloweengiftcards], $100 for a writer to make 5 pages of content, and he made thousands in sales." Ditto "If you’re a productivity app, write a page for “increases productivity in Healthcare”, another for “increases productivity in Education”, “lowers cost in Healthcare”, and so on." This kind of seo-engineering just seem…

People were looking for Halloween bingo cards, Patrick provided them in the most obvious place. In what way is that not providing valuable information/services/products?

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by muyuu »

macoughl wrote: post #110

As someone who has been in the SEO industry a long time I can tell you that some of this is terrible/spammy advice... Buy KW rich domains and pay some copywriter to crank out 4-5 pages?! Are you serious? Twitter has no SEO Value?...just so you know...the SE's came out and said that authoritative tweets absolutely have value....While they don't pass "juice", they can help you in the SERPs I'd hold off on that hug if I…

There is nothing about SEO (and SEO only) that isn't spammy.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by melissamiranda »

bambax wrote: post #44
randfish wrote: post #14

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Yes, you're totally cool to use either site.tld or www.site.tld. I'd recommend using a 301 redirect of one to the other (Google and Bing are pretty good at automatically canonicalizing these, but not perfect). The trouble comes when you segment content to subdomain.site.com. The domain authority engines assign to a root domain may not always pass to all the subdomains, so you end up with subpar rankings to what you c…

But if your blog is hosted by a third party (say Posterous), having blog.domain.com is very easy to set up, but domain.com/blog isn't? (Is it actually even possible at all?)

This is a total pain in Tumblr. I don't even think it's possible, or at least, haven't figured it out in 3 days of trying. So now I'm weighing whether the community/distribution of Tumblr is worth trading for a little bit of SEO. In our case, a social iPhone app, I think we're keeping Tumblr.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by melissamiranda »

anjc wrote: post #102
melissamiranda wrote: post #97

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Right. Twitter is great for distributing a link, but having your link on twitter.com is not going to help you rank for Google search results. What does work is people seeing your link on Twitter and posting it around the internet.

Yeah, that's what i'm wondering (i asked in another comment though), how much of the benefit of retweets was actually the public link building for you, on sites like reddit, rather than Google giving credence to links it tweets.

I think the reasoning is that a link in a blog is better because it's one link with lots of text. Links on Twitter are links next to lots of links. Google doesn't value pages full of links as much as content with a few links. (It feels so backward)

By the same reasoning, Hacker News front page doesn't help you with page rank, but it's great for exposure.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by Joe_Knapp »

irahul wrote: post #34
melissamiranda wrote: post #31

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Look at his main site: http://www.kalzumeus.com/ . It's quite good looking and well designed.

What about this one http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ That doesn't look that good looking to me.

The design is for conversion not aesthetics.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by OpenAmazing »

irahul wrote: post #34
melissamiranda wrote: post #31

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Look at his main site: http://www.kalzumeus.com/ . It's quite good looking and well designed.

What about this one http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ That doesn't look that good looking to me.

Are you a female elementary school teacher?

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by Daniel_Newby »

anjc wrote: post #99
zacharycohn wrote: post #90

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The min threshhold I think is now 500 karma. It's a way to ensure that only people who have been around for a while and understand the community have the ability to downvote, and the rule is only downvote contentless posts (like memes, "+1"'s, etc).

Jasus, i'll never get to 500. Those rules make sense, but the parent comment in this thread had been downvoted despite being correct. Fairly Redditish (the one thing that puts me off Reddit). Thanks anyway.

It's pretty easy to accidentally click the downvote button, and there is no way to fix it. Usually someone will vote it back up in short order.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by gujk »

nikcub wrote: post #42

At Techcrunch when we removed the share buttons average traffic to each post dropped 20-25%. We saw no jump in number of blog links, or tumblr's, or anything else. The buttons suck - we knew that a lot of users hated them (it adds 4 * 20 additional HTTP requests to the main page), but they were worth too much traffic to do away with. Social network referrals likely surpass search engine referrals for a lot of blogs a…

If you could, how much would you charge someone to "subscribe" to "buy off" the share buttons for their pageview? Same question goes for ads.

If the price isn't too high, someone should just start selling crapblockers that make everyone happy. I guess the challenge is that you can't price a crablocker until after you've inundated someone with crap for measurement purposes.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by gujk »

nikcub wrote: post #48
mkuhn wrote: post #45

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Its nice how the 4*20 requests problem has been solved during the redesign. Now the individual Buttons are only loaded if someone really wants to use them and is hovering over the dummy buttons. I found that quite nifty and unobtrusive. A smart solution to the problem.

It is much better than having two clicks (which I had prototyped), but the prob is that a lot of portable devices don't have 'hover' - so I don't know if it falls back on anything in that case. There is a product here - package the buttons together so they only load once, hide them in some way by default, and provide a bunch of analytics. Lots of blogs and websites would pay for that - the current solutions for socia…

Share function belongs in the browser or in Web Intents. It would be less work for all the sites, consistent UX for users, and much better page load speed.

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Post by gujk »

franze wrote: post #33
randfish wrote: post #14

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Yes, you're totally cool to use either site.tld or www.site.tld. I'd recommend using a 301 redirect of one to the other (Google and Bing are pretty good at automatically canonicalizing these, but not perfect). The trouble comes when you segment content to subdomain.site.com. The domain authority engines assign to a root domain may not always pass to all the subdomains, so you end up with subpar rankings to what you c…

one other thing why www is good for SEO. shitty URL parsers. lets say you make a press release. there is a high chance that www.example.org gets automatically parsed into a clickable link (sometimes it's nofollow, sometime it isn't) - on the other side, there is a high chance that example.org does not get parsed into a clickable link, so you would have to write http://example.org to make sure that it get parsed into…

Does anyone who is not a startup founders think kitschy foreign ccTLD domain names are cool? They just confuse users. I am waiting for the day the new Libyan government desides they don't want American companies exploiting .ly. That will be interesting to watch.
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