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Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword
- phanis 4y agoWow! This is a cool hack! My content strategy always revolved around looking for high search keywords.
- Chirag 4y agoTrue. I think building a good repo of keywords would be interesting. Want to see how can we using the ML for building these keywords repositories.
- aryan11 4y agonice article!
- mp_123 4y agoWow! Interesting
- mp_123 4y agoVery cool
- suryaboddus 4y agoMost of the time keywords with low search volume translates to lower competition as well. Its a great hack to get views in cost effective way.
- phanis 4y agoBut here they got traffic by using Medium's publications, recommendation engine and getting featured in editorial content, not through search!
- Ejaz_Mobashir 4y agonice hack for getting better reach.
- vamsi0527 4y agoWow! This is interesting
- Gargee_Bhardwaj 4y agoGood hack to generate traffic on your articles.
- thirdmusketeer 4y agoInteresting
- bediger4000 4y agoWhat is Ahrefs' business? Sure "SEO", but what does that mean, exactly? They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website Since SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough.
- phanis 4y agoInfinite web site is interesting!