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I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a commu
by leon_ 15y ago
I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.
- polyfractal 15y agoI don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing. HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer. Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but there are tons of scammers in every field.
- leon_ 15y ago> try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer No problem with that but spamming google with bought links, etc. isn't what exactly makes a site appealing to customers.