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Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by navanit »

bemmu wrote: post #48

I'm a full-time small project maniac. I've been working by myself for over a year now, my model being to work on a lot of small things for a few days, trying if anything catches on. Worked great so far. I've done about 40 different things, some released and abandoned, some abandoned due to lack of interest, but a few I've released and they've succeeded well enough to cover the time spent on all the others. Christmas…

I'd like to learn more about how you're making this work. I'd like to take the same approach, but am worried about sustainability. I'd appreciate it if you could get in touch. My profile has my email.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by axod »

stanley wrote: post #79
axod wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment scores 98% on my spam detector.

Haha, I can see why you would say that. What I was trying to convey was that from an SEO standpoint, your site fails miserably. You need to change your title tags to be more keyword specific, and move your wiki to a subdirectory instead of a subdomain (same goes for the blog).

Fails miserably??

#1 on google for 'mibbit' (obviously)

#2 on google for 'web irc', 'online irc client', 'web irc client', 'web based irc', 'irc web', 'irc web client', 'web based irc client', etc etc

#9 on google for 'irc client', (Only mirc and xchat beat it).

This is all without doing any SEO. Sure there are ways to improve it, but it's more important to improve it for users, than for search engines.

Glad you like it though :)

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by iron_ball »

Writing a simple Missile Command clone with separate game logic and graphics modules; after using simple 2D graphics to test the gameplay, I'm writing a 3D artillery-style graphic representation. The whole thing is mostly an exercise to learn the Actionscript 3D library Papervision3D better -- there's a ton of work there in the future as the Flash Player keeps improving its core 3D transformations.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by stanley »

axod wrote: post #82
stanley wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, I can see why you would say that. What I was trying to convey was that from an SEO standpoint, your site fails miserably. You need to change your title tags to be more keyword specific, and move your wiki to a subdirectory instead of a subdomain (same goes for the blog).

Fails miserably?? #1 on google for 'mibbit' (obviously) #2 on google for 'web irc', 'online irc client', 'web irc client', 'web based irc', 'irc web', 'irc web client', 'web based irc client', etc etc #9 on google for 'irc client', (Only mirc and xchat beat it). This is all without doing any SEO. Sure there are ways to improve it, but it's more important to improve it for users, than for search engines. Glad you like…

SEO is not just about ranking for a handful of keywords, it's about ranking for the million other searches that aren't as popular.

Well, either way you're obviously against taking any advice so I won't waste any of my time trying to help you. Good luck with your service.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by axod »

stanley wrote: post #84
axod wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fails miserably?? #1 on google for 'mibbit' (obviously) #2 on google for 'web irc', 'online irc client', 'web irc client', 'web based irc', 'irc web', 'irc web client', 'web based irc client', etc etc #9 on google for 'irc client', (Only mirc and xchat beat it). This is all without doing any SEO. Sure there are ways to improve it, but it's more important to improve it for users, than for search engines. Glad you like…

SEO is not just about ranking for a handful of keywords, it's about ranking for the million other searches that aren't as popular. Well, either way you're obviously against taking any advice so I won't waste any of my time trying to help you. Good luck with your service.

Sure, and I appreciate the advice, but it's not rocket science.

I already have http://www.mibbit.com/networks/ (Work in progress) which is a complete browsable list of networks and channels, with topic info etc etc. As well as being hugely useful for users, it's obviously useful for ranking on searches. For example, if someone searches for "freenode", mibbit has some good results there.

A solid example: Search google for "freenode javascript". Mibbit is result number 3. I'm happy with that...

I repeat. SEO is not rocket science, it's simple best practices for end users.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by brandnewlow »

nootopian wrote: post #77
brandnewlow wrote: post #36

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Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/bflora I'll announce on there. Looks like we're going to build it at the eventual live URL so I'd rather not give that out just yet. My buddy's doing all the heavy lifting on this one. I'm just tracking down shape files and representative listings and so forth.

You might be interested in a UK site http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

I'm a big fan of what they've done. Those MySociety People are really making some neat stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by kingnothing »

randomwalker wrote: post #14

I'm a grad student. I'm working on a way to turn papers written in latex into a form that's readable online, because having to print everything is so 1990s. I start from the output of latex2html and go from there. For instance, if you hover over a citation, I pop up a bubble showing you links to author homepages, the abstract of the cited paper, download links, etc., even though the latex bibliography didn't specify…

Why not just convert it to a PDF?

http://www.msi.umn.edu/software/tex/help/pdf.html

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