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WTF is wrong with hacker news SEO

Post by fichtl80 » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 10:15 AM UTC

Hey HN ... whats wrong with your SEO guy ... always when i type in "hacker news" in chrome omnibox i never get the result i expect ...

i don't want the job page, i don't want the twitter account, i don't want the news faq ... ... please fix it. Thanks.

Look at ... https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news

or ... https://www.google.com/search?q=y+combinator+news

Re: WTF is wrong with hacker news SEO

Post by cdvonstinkpot » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

It's because pg disables bot crawling to keep server load down.

Re: WTF is wrong with hacker news SEO

Post by Jeremy1026 » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 10:41 AM UTC

Have you tried a bookmark? Or visiting the page a few times over the course of a week? I'm at the point where if I type 'ne' in my address bar it is the first autocomplete suggestion, which is convenient to say the least.

Re: WTF is wrong with hacker news SEO

Post by mtgx » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 10:54 AM UTC

PG doesn't care about "SEO", nor about Google's "mainstream" traffic - because he doesn't want random people coming to HN. People who use HN regularly can write the site's name (Chrome even remembers it after you type it fully once), or bookmark it.

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