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Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics
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#12Can someone explain why this is a topic worthy of discussion? I get that they had a SEO tactic, Google penalized them, they offered an empty apology for it, and now we're up to the present. Stating the obvious of "traffic drops when Google penalizes you" seems like a "sun rose again today"-type story.
eh i think this falls into the category of "if you don't care don't click the link". some people are interested in stats...
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#13It'd be interesting to see which website(s) benefited from the diversion of this traffic.
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#14Can someone explain why this is a topic worthy of discussion? I get that they had a SEO tactic, Google penalized them, they offered an empty apology for it, and now we're up to the present. Stating the obvious of "traffic drops when Google penalizes you" seems like a "sun rose again today"-type story.
I think folks are interested to see how much the penalty hurts.
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#15still way way too early to tell, lets take a look on the 28th before we all go making friends
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#16Can someone explain why this is a topic worthy of discussion? I get that they had a SEO tactic, Google penalized them, they offered an empty apology for it, and now we're up to the present. Stating the obvious of "traffic drops when Google penalizes you" seems like a "sun rose again today"-type story.
Part of it might be Schadenfreude since HN does not seem to think much of RG.
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#17This is not at all surprising, they did a dumb thing because they got desperate and greedy.
In the words of DMX, stop being greedy: http://rapgenius.com/Dmx-stop-being-greedy-lyrics
Also, as of right now they aren't showing up on google for "stop being greedy rap genius" https://www.google.com/search?q=stop+being+greedy+rap+genius
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#18Can someone explain why this is a topic worthy of discussion? I get that they had a SEO tactic, Google penalized them, they offered an empty apology for it, and now we're up to the present. Stating the obvious of "traffic drops when Google penalizes you" seems like a "sun rose again today"-type story.
Part of it might be Schadenfreude since HN does not seem to think much of RG.
why is that? i assumed HN would like then since i remember a bunch of articles about RG being big RoR proponents
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#19Why is Rap Genius afforded this coverage? There are a lot of SEO scammers out there and are punished as found. Reading through one of those TC articles it appears that they were interviewed on stage by TC during one of their events too. Why is a scammy link baity company given this importance?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of it might be Schadenfreude since HN does not seem to think much of RG.
why is that? i assumed HN would like then since i remember a bunch of articles about RG being big RoR proponents
I think that it's because they are not fans of their brogrammer antics. Read this thread for example (or any other Rap Genius thread on HN)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904224
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