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by meatbag 12y ago
Recently I had to spend a month working on a massively important, yet incredibly tedious/repetitive, web dev project. I started with our company's standard-issue dev environment: Windows 7 running Sublime Text. I got fed up with t
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by meatbag 17y ago
There's not enough information to explore potential causality here. All we have is the word of an aggrieved site owner who swears up and down that he was engaged in perfectly unimpeachable conduct. There's no evidence, just whining.
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by meatbag 17y ago
Can I get a green-screen terminal hooked up to the Internet?
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by meatbag 17y ago
6,310,000 old backlinks, many of which come from highly trusted sources, might have some effect.
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by meatbag 17y ago
It is presumptuous, and sets a possibly dangerous precedent.
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by meatbag 17y ago
"...the ranking makes sense." PR and rank are often correlated, but PR is not a good predictor of actual rank. "How in the world Altavista has a PR of 9 is a mystery though." A large volume of natural links is probably the explanation here.
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by meatbag 17y ago
If the software is important to you, because, for example, your livelihood depends on it, then yes, I recommend reading the EULA closely :) IMO the same applies to running a business that is reliant to a significant degree on traffic from s
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by meatbag 17y ago
Since we're focused on Google, logically the best strategic decision is to accept that you can't change the terrain on the battlefield, and adapt your strategy accordingly.
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by meatbag 17y ago
Consultants sometimes provide a Google Webmaster Tools verification file to the site owner in question. Once the site owner uploads this to the site's root directory, the consultant will be able to access Google Webmaster Tools data on the
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by meatbag 17y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - nevertheless, there is always a cause and effect. Admittedly, in complicated systems it can be hard to find either.
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by meatbag 17y ago
Strongly agree with this comment. The "wounded indignation" tone is very familiar to me, as the online SEO community is full of these stories which don't seem to go anywhere and which hamper real discussion. Reminds me of alcoholics who are
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by meatbag 17y ago
Google is not required to provide customer service. If "SEO" is important to you, I recommend rereading Google's terms of service and landing page quality guidelines. Google Webmaster Tools is the best way to get feedback on your particular
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by meatbag 17y ago
All of the articles I've seen thus far on studiobriefing.net are scraped verbatim from another source, assumedly celebrifi.com. This is against Google's terms of service, and this activity is likely to result in a ban. Instead of whining ab
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by meatbag 17y ago
I can't comment on "efficient" or "streamlined" but I would echo this recommendation to at least create a Google Webmaster Tools account before complaining to the Internet at large.
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by meatbag 17y ago
Is it just me, or are these insights superficial? If "social media" is a conversation, doesn't it already imply that listening is part of the process? Using social media for its intended purpose is different than retweeting Guy Kawasaki jus
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by meatbag 17y ago
I agree, Ubuntu can be unwieldy compared with the solidity of other distros. I usually put up with some slowness or instability because Ubuntu automates stupid little tasks like uncompressing files (which I really should learn how to do on
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by meatbag 17y ago
No, it probably won't "work" out of the box, meaning that it requires configuration. With a fresh install, typically the first thing I do is plug in an ethernet cable, download all available updates (including wifi drivers and other softwar
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by meatbag 17y ago
A LOT of trouble can be saved if the hardware is confirmed to work with the OS. I bought a System76 Starling. Haven't upgraded it to Karmic yet - I figure I'll let more people tread the upgrade path until it is smoother.
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by meatbag 17y ago
An interesting development might be the emergence of services that effectively function as 80legs resellers. Shortly after 80legs's debut, some guys from my company approached a vendor at a conference who offered SEO-focused crawling servic
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by meatbag 17y ago
It's stuff like this which makes me think that the release cycle for Ubuntu is just too brisk. I've just recently managed to get two 8.10 installs to the point where they're comfortably configured and stable. I'm still working out a few iss
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by meatbag 17y ago
Believe it or not, I've upgraded Ubuntu successfully several times through the GUI. Before Ubuntu 7.x this tended to fail spectacularly though. It's a very friendly process when it works, which admittedly seems contingent on the maturity of
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by meatbag 17y ago
By the same logic, web designers are just web developers who are incapable of doing the other 90% of the job.
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by meatbag 17y ago
There's interesting stuff under discussion up there but I've noticed it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention - few blog comments, etc - was wondering why this was since there's other arguably similar gatherings (TED, SXSW, etc) that get a
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by meatbag 17y ago
This submission implies that SEOmoz is at least slightly interested in peer review. Which would be a very good thing for them.
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by meatbag 17y ago
Some (cynical) possibilities: 1. To sell invites would be "unGOOGlich"; that is, it may hurt Google's perceived "do no evil"/not-just-in-it-for-the-money/faux altruism brand. 2. Scarcity marketing increases demand for an already sought-afte
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by meatbag 17y ago
While for the most part I agree, I don't see why being concerned about the well-documented hazards of nuclear fission equates to "wacky", or why being flippant about these risks should equate to "non-wacky" for that matter.
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by meatbag 17y ago
It would be nice if the Twitter accounts that broadcast an HN feed also linked to the comments. There's a lot of value in these discussions. I've learned a lot from just lurking here.
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by meatbag 18y ago
from http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape/help/sources * Dotnetdotcom.org * Grub.org/Wikia * Page-Store.com * Amazon/Alexa’s crawl and internet archive resources * Exalead’s commercially available data * Gigablast’s
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by meatbag 18y ago
I very much agree that it is an interesting bit of news, I've been meaning to download the dataset and play with it for a while now. The only point I wanted to make was that there is another side to this story. An adequate summary can be f
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by meatbag 18y ago
Draw a map of the WWW?

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