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Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

GL26 wrote: post #7
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #5

For anyone curious about what all the links are, here are all the 50 websites that the directory links to. 1. Medium : https://medium.com 2. Crunchbase : https://crunchbase.com 3. Hacker News : https://news.ycombinator.com 4. Product Hunt : https://producthunt.com 5. Reddit r/SideProject : https://reddit.com 6. Slashdot : https://slashdot.org 7. G2 : https://g2.com 8. Awwwards : https://awwwards.com 9. Capterra : htt…

how can you make it so the blog of another company mentions your website so you get better SEO ?

I am not within the SEO world so I can't answer this question, sorry but I recommend asking it to other people or if other people can answer it.

My naive interpretation would be to build tools which other companies want to use but its a bit of chicken and egg problem and maybe these directories help in fixing the issue in the first place of this problem.

Also, with LLM's, I imagine that there are some websites which use AI for writing texts but the thing is that I'd much prefer my things to not be mentioned by them even if it increases the SEO because I'd prefer not my product if I build one when searched to be filled with slop results, and also, everyone is within the rush for gold mines and so we are forgetting writing for the sake of it but there are few people who write blogs for the sake of writing.

Perhaps I recommend looking at some blogging websites and asking them to test your website but this isn't company blog. I think that is a high bar to achieve but I wish you look in doing so and hope someone who's more experienced in SEO can answer it for ya.

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by Barbing »

transitorykris wrote: post #3

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

> Now the search engines aren’t the challenge

Although it can still be a gamble whether a small site made it to DuckDuckGo (Bing’s crawler)

But that only affects about seven of us anyway so your point stands

> Submit It

Trying to remember a different one…

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by dofm »

moebrowne wrote: post #10
transitorykris wrote: post #3

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

Kinda reminds me of DMoz.

itsbeen84years.gif

Dmoz! Those were the good days. :-)

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by stackghost »

Hmm, the top item on the page is Medium, and underneath the description begins with "High-authority publishing platform".

That is... not the popular assessment of Medium these days. At one point, Medium and the other minimalist one whose name I can't remember (edit: it was Svbtle) were seen as high-prestige and high-signal platforms.

Nowadays Medium is just AI slop and low-effort surface-level takes from people trying to build a personal brand.

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by holistio »

stackghost wrote: post #16

Hmm, the top item on the page is Medium, and underneath the description begins with "High-authority publishing platform". That is... not the popular assessment of Medium these days. At one point, Medium and the other minimalist one whose name I can't remember (edit: it was Svbtle) were seen as high-prestige and high-signal platforms. Nowadays Medium is just AI slop and low-effort surface-level takes from people tryin…

I'm building something that's not very far from how you describe (and how I also used to see) Medium.

What do you think could have prevented its downfall?

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Retr0id wrote: post #4

> earn quality backlinks Well, at least its honest. For many (most?) of the listed sites, drive-by submitting a link just for the SEO juice would be considered rude.

The directories have to assume everyone is doing it for personal benefit. That's one of their main hooks to gather submissions, and they have to deal with the spam of bad actors.

If your website is a good quality addition to the lists, just submit it. Your exact motivation isn't really relevant if the qualifier holds.

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by rognjen »

transitorykris wrote: post #3

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

And don't forget StumbleUpon...
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