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Netminder_EE
12y ago
What's annoyingly fraudulent is posting this as if it were something new. The article was written in August 2013, and used information from early that year. For one thing, Experts Exchange has used neither that system since before the
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
Nope. I've been an EE member since 1999 and have never given them a cent. Some parts of the site are only accessible to Premium Services customers, but it's not all that difficult to earn them -- so no money out the door.
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
Emphasis on the word "old". Experts Exchange doesn't do that, and hasn't for quite a while now.
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
DISCLAIMER: I'm one of Experts Exchange's volunteer administrators. Google penalized sites that redirected from SERPs or buried content below a lot of "sign up here" stuff very heavily; you can even make the case that it
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
Why wouldn't EE exist? Despite the best efforts of some well-known bloggers whose site wouldn't exist if it had to depend solely on actual income, EE exists because it has a business model that DOES work.
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
With respect, that's not true: http://www.ee-stuff.com/images/LoggedOutView.png You DO get a message asking you to join just above the question, but nothing else.
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
It's a lot easier when Matt Cutts is listening to you tell him what to do about the competitor you're trying to overcome.
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
DISCLAIMER: I'm Experts Exchange's senior volunteer administrator. That means, for the most part, that I've outlasted everyone else. At the time EE imposed the cloaking / hard and fast paywall / masking / whate
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Netminder_EE
12y ago
DISCLAIMER: I'm Experts Exchange's senior volunteer administrator. That's just one of the things EE was busted for. For logged in members, they would see the pages from a Google SERP one would expect to see; for non-members (