Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword • Hacker News Board

Re: Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword

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Post by Gargee_Bhardwaj » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 3:52 PM UTC

Good hack to generate traffic on your articles.

Re: Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword

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Post by thirdmusketeer » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 4:12 PM UTC

Interesting

Re: Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword

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Post by bediger4000 » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

What is Ahrefs' business? Sure "SEO", but what does that mean, exactly?

They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website

Since SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough.

Re: Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword

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Post by phanis » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

bediger4000 wrote: post #13

What is Ahrefs' business? Sure "SEO", but what does that mean, exactly? They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website Since SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough.

Infinite web site is interesting!