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Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes. Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.
Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes. Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.
I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.
If we are going to "pump" up the SEO factor, things like https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 for "Car is not starting" would not be in place.
Instead, maybe something like https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting
So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold this site up as heavily SEO optimized. Nothing against the company as they are a young company just not a good example IMO.
curl -I https://www.yourmechanic.com
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx/1.2.2
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:05:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 168
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-EncodingSome config issues? curl -I https://www.yourmechanic.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: nginx/1.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:05:23 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 168 Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding
$ curl -I -A Mozilla https://www.yourmechanic.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.2.2
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Edit: deleted comment I replied to was saying two of the judges were investors in the company. Wow really? If that is the case how can they not have received favorable treatment? Even with the best of intentions those judges must be intimate with every aspect of the business and would be unable to separate that knowledge from what the other judges are basing their decisions on. I know the TC bias bashing is a bit of…
Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes. Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.
I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.
Compare their SEO strategy to a YC company that repairs iPhones, or the one that sells cars. If you don't know the urls, send me an email and I'll tell you the ones I am talking about.
The YC anti-SEO pattern exists, it is just not polite to call out SEO mistakes, because if anyone builds anything, then we must be supportive.
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I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.
Agreed. If we are going to "pump" up the SEO factor, things like https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 for "Car is not starting" would not be in place. Instead, maybe something like https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold this site up as heavily SEO optimized. Nothing against the company as they are a young company just not a good example IMO.
I'll now call out YC companies to prove my point. I went to the techcrunch demo day round 1, and have a look at http://vastrm.com/ It is a complete SEO disaster. No reasonable advisor would have said that was a good idea for an e-commerce company.