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Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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I was looking for something similar for my girlfriend. I was thinking she could market/translate Western apps/websites for the Chinese market since she is Chinese and speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. Not sure how to get her started though. Would you pay for such a service?

I would (for the text of an app), but I have no real clue where one goes (other than a search) to find / advertise that type of service.

http://www.icanlocalize.com/ has been very good for iPhone apps.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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Not the most appropriate response to a husband. This isn't Reddit.

Why does noone on HN have a sense of humor?

Because it keeps the signal to noise ratio high. I got thoroughly downvoted for making a few wisecracks when I first arrived here and didn't get why.

After being here a while I appreciate being able to read comment threads that are centered around useful conversation from people who know what they're talking about and not a contest to see who can crack the funniest joke. If you like that, Reddit's good.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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Not the most appropriate response to a husband. This isn't Reddit.

Why does noone on HN have a sense of humor?

We do have one but there are other sites for this.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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just a wild, very wild and untested, idea. a mini-niche "mechanical turk" iphone(andorid) app. i.e.: if your wife is called "gloria" the app is called "Ask Gloria" * user types in an question/request. * gloria (the real gloria) response. the app is free(? or 0.99) with a 1 question package. an additional question pack (of 5 questions) costs 10(?)$ the selling point is that not an anonymous person or siri-AI answers y…

It's what ChaCha was supposed to be, I guess they still are.

with Chacha you ask "a person" (maybe, if the question wasn't asked before), with Ask Gloria you ask Gloria. but yeah, the product has similarities, but the marketing and selling point would be different.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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This site promotes horrible spammy paractices such as "article spinning" (automated word substitution) and cross-posting the same (spun) article to numerous sites to with links to the niche site to enhance google-rank. Every link here is an affiliate link for another marketing site in the dense web of self-referential marketing guru sites. Not HN-ey is one way to put it!

True, this kind of thing still works though. Google updates are slowly trending towards hitting low quality stuff like spun articles though.

Sadly yes some of this does work, but you have to buy the tools and resources promoted by these sorts of sites, most of which would only seem to have experience using them to market SEO tools to other wannabee web marketers. The search engines are getting smarter though as you say, and depending on these sorts of techniques is asking for trouble.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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This site promotes horrible spammy paractices such as "article spinning" (automated word substitution) and cross-posting the same (spun) article to numerous sites to with links to the niche site to enhance google-rank. Every link here is an affiliate link for another marketing site in the dense web of self-referential marketing guru sites. Not HN-ey is one way to put it!

So are there better resources you would recommend? Thanks.

Sure. Check out SEOmoz.com. These guys provide great tools for SEO intelligence, and are not afraid to advocate doing things "the hard way", which will pay real dividends in the long term. If the tools are too pricey for the stage you're at, the blog is still invaluable.

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So are there better resources you would recommend? Thanks.

Sure. Check out SEOmoz.com. These guys provide great tools for SEO intelligence, and are not afraid to advocate doing things "the hard way", which will pay real dividends in the long term. If the tools are too pricey for the stage you're at, the blog is still invaluable.

Thanks.
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