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Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics
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#52Funnily, that gives idea that how much traffic bing contribute.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Three reasons: 1) The site itself isn't actually half bad, especially when compared to other lyrics sites. 2) They're a YC company, and took money from other big investors. This automatically makes them high-profile on places like HN. 3) The founders often publically act like douchebags, write emails with bad spelling, and generally seem to think that being cool is the most important part of running a startup. I susp…
#3 definitely is why there is so much enthusiasm running around regarding their punishment
It's actually kind of bullshit too. It's in a similar vein to the joy people have in many of the 'Facebook is no longer popular among 14-16 year old' posts. These sites provide a valuable service, just because you don't like them doesn't justify being (in the parlance of the youth) a hater.
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#54This is comparing pre-Christmas-day traffic to Christmas-day traffic. Many people spend December 25th doing very different things than they do other days of the year.
Like nobody posting to Facebook in the morning, combined with completely crashing Steam in the afternoon.
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#55Thats a huge drop. How accurate is Quantcast?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of it might be Schadenfreude since HN does not seem to think much of RG.
I think this is exactly it. Their affect is another example of cultural appropriation of "urban" culture by three very affluent guys (Stanford & Yale grads), which I think turns a lot of people off, including myself. As someone who genuinely grew up in that culture, it is painfully cringe worthy and just sad to see people who have no background in it adopt it. Their Disrupt interview was a genuine display of the gene…
Yeah, that interview is like the definition of the word 'tool'.
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#57This is the best PR stunt ever.
accidental one!
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#58Can 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.
I think people - foreigners and valley outsiders for the most part - are often genuinely clueless about the workings of the valley.
They are quite apprehensive of the degree of even-handedness that is at play in the valley. They suspect an air of nuanced in-group favoritism, within startups here, that help propel some and sink others.[1]
Hopefully these kind of actions (on behalf of Google) help dispel such notions.
[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/13/silicon_v...
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#59Why 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?
Three reasons: 1) The site itself isn't actually half bad, especially when compared to other lyrics sites. 2) They're a YC company, and took money from other big investors. This automatically makes them high-profile on places like HN. 3) The founders often publically act like douchebags, write emails with bad spelling, and generally seem to think that being cool is the most important part of running a startup. I susp…
Also, nobody seems to mention the fact that this story was created out of an HN thread... I imagine that has a lot to do with everyone's interest in it.
Re: Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics
#60Why 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?
I'll give you a hint: the other SEO scammers aren't YC companies...