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

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Post by flixic » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:32 PM UTC

ceedan wrote: post #15

http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt # robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

These are lyrics from this song, "The Humans are Dead" by Flight of the Conchords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

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

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Post by leeoniya » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:33 PM UTC

it adds 11.5k to the page (20% overhead) for an easter egg seems a bit excessive. it would be 10x smaller and more interesting to embed a js1k game or demo in the source.

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

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Post by jdorfman » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

kn0thing wrote: post #14

sharkweek wrote: post #5

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.

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

MaxCDN does, inspired by SoundCloud.

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

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Post by tommytsunami » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

kn0thing wrote: post #14

sharkweek wrote: post #5

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.

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

Click view source, there's a url too....

http://oak.is/

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

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Post by andygcook » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

kn0thing wrote: post #16

andygcook wrote: post #11

Does anyone know who the person in the homepage source code is? view-source: http://www.tutorspree.com/

I'm hoping it's Freddie Mercury.

I'm thinking it's Al Pacino in Scar Face. Freddie Mercury just as solid a bet though.

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

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Post by stellar678 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

ceedan wrote: post #15

http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt # robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM

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

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Post by bherms » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

hcmeier wrote: post #18

kn0thing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

> OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs? https://soundcloud.com

What is going on there?

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

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Post by platz » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

Are there any sites that publish the majority of it's content (or alternate) in html comments (view-source), rather than in visible markup?

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

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Post by clarkdale » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

ceedan wrote: post #15

http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt # robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

http://www.google.com/humans.txt

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

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Post by edwinnathaniel » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

kn0thing wrote: post #14

sharkweek wrote: post #5

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.

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/DOMContentLoaded/

Message on console:

"Do you come here often? If so, we'd love to talk about opportunities on the IE team: http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/internet-explorer/340041... "