What I’ve learned about SEO (2018) • Hacker News Board

Re: What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

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Post by Jommi » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 11:00 AM UTC

emerongi wrote: post #17

dclusin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any thoughts on https://millionshort.com ? I've seen it mentioned here. I've thought about using it for stuff, but most of my searches are programming queries which google is actually really good at. It's noticeably better than DDG for programming because it usually infers correctly which language I'm talking about. But as you said, perhaps not so good for PHP? Also I use an ad blocker, so perhaps I'm not seeing what…

It doesn't help much. Most notably, it even removes credible sites like Wikipedia. Programming queries are a completely different thing. I'm talking about queries like "plumber in X", "build website", "which laptop to use" etc - queries where there's a very direct path from search to money being spent. Those queries are completely littered, you can just skip 10 pages and maybe you will find some actual professionals…

>Those queries are completely littered, you can just skip 10 pages and maybe you will find some actual professionals or enthusiasts with actual information.

Isn't the whole point of the linked website to do this?

Re: What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

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Post by Jommi » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 11:04 AM UTC

andrei_says_ wrote: post #34

seriocomic wrote: post #27

I'm actually surprised that this article made the homepage and has received the upvotes it has on this (typically SEO sceptical) HN forum. Probably less than 30% of the article would be considered "effective" (e.g. the advice is specific to, and likely to materially increase SEO performance) and the rest is either unsubstantiated (semantic tags and image compression leading to SEO ranking improvements) or unrelated t…

Could you link to one? Would love some high quality writing on the topic.

I doubt he will link anything that works. It's because of how advertising works. It's usually a zero-sum game in PPC so tips/tricks usually only work when majority of people do not know of them.

Re: What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

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Post by Jommi » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 11:11 AM UTC

rolltiide wrote: post #10

Just run instagram story ads ZERO of those users will ever care or even notice your URL. Dont waste time on that ZERO of those users will ever type in a search string on Google to find you MANY of those users can order from you with their phone’s native payment system, or will pull out their credit card and type it in using the crude mobile interface. It also works really well. Really should consider ditching a lot o…

Hey. Thanks for this comment, it really feels like a breath of fresh air. Do you have more to say on this topic?

Re: What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

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Post by gopi » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

This is a better SEO guide for beginners https://medium.com/startup-grind/seo-is-not-hard-a-step-by-s...

Re: What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

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Post by fefehern » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

franze wrote: post #5

i have done seo since 2004 and now i'm leaving it behind for good. (reason: new google search console, amp, featured snippets and google ads the first 4 results anyway ... google lost its way a long time ago, they are internet cancer by now) as i am leaving SEO for good, im selling my SEO book for 1€/$ (Kindle Version, i can't set it to 0) https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo

Just a notice: I am currently seeing it on Amazon for higher than $1