Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#1

Post by kn0thing » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC

Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)
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Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#2

Post by gkoberger » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

What makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#3

Post by akharris » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh).

We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#4

Post by renownedmedia » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #2

What makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.

I think he was joking :p

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#5

Post by sharkweek » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs

One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#6

Post by throwaway125 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

I assume the giant comment is what we're supposed to see, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to have any impact on SEO at all. Seems more like a tribute than a SEO hack.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#7

Post by simonster » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

I'm pretty sure John McCarthy was the creator of Lisp, not pg...

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#8

Post by carlsednaoui » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

I've done the same thing on one of my sites, it shows my gravatar image: view-source:http://permutationer.com/

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#9

Post by 3825 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

renownedmedia wrote: post #4

gkoberger wrote: post #2

What makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.

I think he was joking :p

Or that they made their website interesting enough for us to and link back to the website, talk about it here, and possibly increase traffic ;)

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#10

Post by akharris » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:58 PM UTC

simonster wrote: post #7

I'm pretty sure John McCarthy was the creator of Lisp, not pg...

Whoops - good point. Fixing now. I'll take the blame on that one. Meant to write ARC.