jcalacanis

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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Google gives permission to some sites to do more. we are one of those sites.
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Take a look at the how to play guitar chords page... it's everything you would want if you did that search. people stay on that page for 20-60 minutes!!! and there are 50 people on that page all the time learning to play guitar chords. sorr
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Thank you.... and I agree. We are 100% SEO compliment to best practices and we delete/deindex/build out any community pages that are short every month. Google Knol, Wikipedia, About.com, eHow and Associated Content don't do this! We are ube
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Start-Ups Get Free Chance to Pitch to Angel Investors(online.wsj.com)
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
If you want to obsess about me please continue... all your doing is making yourself look bad. It's silly to obsess to this level about one person. The Hacker News community is now looking at the account AaronWall as a spammer--way to go! In
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
I think you're once again trying to spam Hacker News with your own personal vendetta against me Aaron. Most brands love when folks make fan sites or communities. You're being intellectually dishonest here, using the term squatting when in f
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Also Aaron, I would read this article... :-) http://www.seobook.com/how-choose-great-domain-names
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Actually, we're not trying to drive folks to Mahalo with these sites. We're actually happier if they stay on the vertical sites--which have higher CPMs.
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Some updates for folks on SEO: 1. Domain names are not counted toward SEO. Links and quality content are what drives SEO. That is what you should really focus on. 2. Having more than one domain name doesn't help SEO--especially if they are
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Actually Aaron, you can use a domain name with a brand in it.... take a look at wipo and you'll see dozens of examples of this. I've posted one below. That being said, if someone had a problem with our Toyota Answers site or iPad Answers si
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
Ain't that the truth! I've got 10 or so SEOs who watch everything we do and send complaint letters by the dozens to Matt. Keeps us on our toes to an absurd level.
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
It's not autoblogging, they are niche communities no different than HN or forums or StackOverflow. As they grow you'll see us invest more in their design and build them out. I'm not certain this will become a huge business for us, but our Q
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by jcalacanis 16y ago
That's correct. These will either grow or fail based on their ability to build a community of passionate users.
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Open Angel Forum in Boston this Friday London & Seattle next(techcrunch.com)
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