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Ask HN: How beefed up SEO bogs/websites make money, care to explain?
A few weeks back, there was a comment on HN [1] which described how he is making 10$/month from one domain name by doing some SEO thing. Which I don't understand completely.

I don't even understand enough to search Google (or even to frame a good Ask HN here) so spare me the flames. Co-incidentally, I looked at the new project emails from my freelancer account a week by and found an Indian employer (who as it turns out, lives in my city) who was willing to pay me 75Rs for 500 words. I started working for him and made 500 bucks in a few hours, and he is still giving me work.

But I was curious about the kind of work that he gives me, "write <number of articles usually 5 or above > <number of words> articles with <keyword> in it with density 1-2%" is the standard. I don't understand what his clients are doing with this content, I usually just rephrase or summarize the Wikipedia pages.

Can anybody explain how all this works? And on another note, what is the effect of domain name on SEO, would holding toplevel domain be better than holding a .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830541

Edit: Am also confused about how they select the keyword? As I have discovered, you can literally write over 50 articles for anything.

Also what advertisers do they use. Adsense wouldn't approve them these days.
Yeah, what lucasjung said.

A "negative transfer" is when you apply habits from one language to another and make usage choices that are not necessarily errors, but sound awkward to native speakers. It's not so much a translation thing as it is a non-native speaker thing.
I'll check that out, if I have time.

The problem I have with a lot of these studies and various parenting advice is that tiny, tiny details matter.

Word choice, what you remark on, what you reward, and how you behave by default (as opposed to when consciously teaching) matter so much.

Investigations into child psychology should probably teach us a lot about the children, themselves.

The problem with investigating parenting is that you really need a 24/7 video log.
I might be missing the timeline but wasn't it until iPod worked with Windows that it really took off?
Right. The argument is that we force ourselves into monophasic sleep, which is unnatural and inefficient.

"Why We Nap" (ISBN 0817634622) is a great resource about polyphasic sleep. Most of us are in the habit of monophasic sleep, even if we have crazy or limited sleep schedules. The thing is, if your body goes through more than one sleep cycle in a period of sleep, then there is a period in the middle where you are basically not getting anything from the sleep. Biphasic sleeping is a way to reset the cycle more quickly, so instead of 2 hours of low value sleep, you just wake up for a half hour or so.

Personally, I've found that another important thing is simply sleeping consistently. That means either certain times of the day or for certain amounts of time. For example, always sleeping in three hours means your body knows what to expect and makes the most out of the time. Biphasic is just the easiest (and perhaps most natural) way to do it.
I heard the top performers are getting the 10% raise and a bonus equal to 40% of base pay.
Like Nostromo said...

Plus it's pretty clear Facebook itself needs to make a distinction between something like a "export application" (that does generate nothing-like-spam) and something like Farmville (which is only generates something-like-spam).

While this lack of distinction is a serious problem for Facebook ... it hardly qualifies as a good argument for Facebook being able to export from everyone else but not allowing exports to anyone.
I think my high school classes were on a 50/10 schedule.
I don't personally have any objection to it but it sounds like some users do.
So not true. I managed to hire some absolute _star_ performers from HP last year - right after they received a 10% pay cut (along with many of their likewise high performing colleagues). I don't know what was going through HPs minds, and I'd love to know if they lost a number of their great performers. Low - average end performers will have to stay, particularly in a down job market - but the great ones can always get jobs anywhere.

I assure you that pay increases in large companies in the valley are not a slam dunk 10% a year, particularly if you aren't getting a promotion to a new position.
Honestly, I don't really care about the team page...but the product looks pretty good. I think I finally found a substitute of "Things" for my PC :)
"Mr. Schmidt wrote that company surveys indicate salary is more important to Google employees than any other component of pay, such as bonuses or equity. He added the company was moving a portion of employees' bonuses into their base salaries, so they would receive some of it in every paycheck."

Not sure, if this a 10% raise really.
I wonder when Microsoft will start paying attention to these details, I mean F# is supposed to be a 'first class citizen' language in Visual Studio now.
J2ME effectively died (became irrelevant) years ago. It still continues to ship in some low-end feature phones but no important developers are targeting new applications to that platform.
unreleased product - so it just tells me that they are spending time in the wrong areas
In USA? Well you ca change the outcome, but you can not change the outcome of outcome, it will be very similar, for both Democratic Wing and Republican Wing of the Corporate Party.
Actually it's not "slightly more money".... Dollar is struggling right now. Will probably be devalued by 10 or 20 percent soon. Google execs are just trying to stay ahead of the curve.
I do like the blue "script" font. Does anyone know the name of it?

Nevermind, I've found it. For anyone interested: It's Journal by Fontourist.

http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=journal&page=1&n...
> Can anybody explain how all this works?

you write a small-ish informational website on a topic, you use SEO to try and get your site higher up on the search results list so more people will visit, and then you attempt to funnel people into ads or referral links for products.

> And on another note, what is the effect of domain name on SEO

top level domain is somewhat better, but other things matter more.
no issues, iPad iOS 3
Sweet! Before this release, F# was a non-starter for script-y stuff on linux since /resident caused my scripts to hang, and running without /resident had a ridiculously long startup time.
I thought startups were like this and also google. Full of people who love there job.
They caught our attention, so they're doing something right.
Same here, but only because I kept expecting a punch line to the cliche sappy cuteness of it all.

Apparently it's not a parody.
Just Lean Enough For The Holidays: Automating Retail Warehouse Management
The key to retail success is to be just lean enough. Learn how ERP systems can help you achieve this, by automating warehouse management, on the To-Increase blog.
Supposedly the deal applies to previous employees as well. An ex-googler friend of mine was notified presumably so that he might actually come back.
There is also the fact that Facebook does allow yahoo mail and hotmail to export their friends emails, proof: http://searchengineland.com/facebook-you-have-no-right-to-ex...

So why not gmail?
I made a similar timer for Emacs - (http://github.com/silentbicycle/zwiebel). You can set the minute ratio.
> Also, there are major trademark, patent, and copyright issues that need to be settled before anybody can safely fork Java and stop adhering to the spec.

One would certainly have trademark issues with the name Java, but I'm not certain about the rest of that statement.

Sun/Oracle have already provided a GPL'ed version of the JDK and core libraries at http://openjdk.java.net/. There are/were independent attempts to do this also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Virtual_Machine#Licensing and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines for example.

I think the only real issue is around the TCK, but that's just blessing an implementation as "Java Compatible(tm)", or at least I think so. Couldn't one take one of the existing JDK/JRE implementations, rebrand it IcedTea, and create their own IcedTea compatibility test?
TSA agents single Meg McLain out for special treatment for asking questions
Seems interesting, but is it just me, or is that article ridiculously confusing and difficult to read? It's very poorly written.
Every extraordinary perk can be interpreted as desperation.

They give out free food? They must be desperate.

They drive employees to work for free? They must be desperate.

They give free massages at work? They must be desperate. Etc.

The truth is, all else being equal, salary is an important factor when deciding between offers and the only one that is easily comparable (i.e. if you have an offer from few good companies, like Amazon or Google or Apple, you will only know if you're compatible with the company/team/particular job you landed after you have worked there for a while but salary is a known quantity upfront hence it might tip the scale in favor of the company offering the highest salary).

Which is why offering above average salary is a good hiring strategy for any company, including Google.

I can't think of a reason why a single current Google employee should be displeased with such a raise.
In case anyone's wondering, Wunderlist is written in HTML/JS/CSS using Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop packaging tool to make it native using the WebKit framework.

You can check out their source inside the app package. Pretty neat stuff. Pretty clean coding.
"In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system... You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down."

I call BS. I know sugar is hard on your body -- but drinking 12oz of water with 10 tsp. of sugar in it doesn't make me or anyone I know want to vomit, so I don't see why Coke without phosphoric acid would.
I don't have more info on that statement, but it reminds me of this:

When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to
engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision
to a simple logic problem.

From here: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Thanks for the second answer, was really confused on that.

As for the first, isn't it kind of stupid to make a whole website around only one keyword? Or is that what niche blogging all about?

Also what kind of advertisers do these people use. Surely they would not be accepted by adsense because of there strict policy, and they cannot expect to many clicks so they would require a traffic literally in the tens thousands.
What about really real entrepreneurs?
Because clearly the idea that you have high and low performers is brain dead, and therefore the only way to measure that stuff is stupidly, duh.

Come on. In any organization of that size there are people you really want to hang on to. People about whom the question "How would I replace that person?" is harder to answer than for others. My only point is if the stated goal is to retain people, put the resources toward those you actually want to retain. If Google is so exceptional that they really don't have that issue, then I am totally impressed.

Of course the other possibility is that Google is without constraint when it comes to compensation resources, which would also be completely foreign to my experience and invalidate my point.
Python:

conn = sqlite3.connect('foo')
curs = conn.cursor()
curs.execute('create table things (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, stuff TEXT)')
curs.execute('CREATE UNIQUE INDEX tree ON things (id ASC)')

Now "tree" is your tree. ;)

Quite seriously, though, people (that aren't systems programmers) don't think "this is a load of data—I need a binary tree!" People instead think "this is a load of data—I need a database!" and then, when the database isn't actually help their queries go faster, they slap their foreheads and exclaim "oh, wait, I need an indexed database!" Of course, the index just happens to be stored as a b-tree—but they don't know that, and they don't care.

So, to reinterpret, this is basically the data-structure-usage flowchart for the average app programmer:

1. Need quick random access? Use an array.

2. Need quick insertion and removal, or lazy reification (to support, i.e., infinite sequences)? Linked lists, then.

3. Need quick search by key? Hash tables have you covered. (Well, these days, any "hash table" ADT also carries around its keys, so you also get O(N) enumeration of pairs.)

4. And, if your data set makes any of the above solutions choke? Just throw a database at it, and hope it helps.
The Java programming language is only part of the story. There is also this thing called the Java Platform, aka the JVM. You can't just simply switch to Scala, your Scala code needs to be executed by something.
Sure, it's beautiful on the outside. But it's fake. It's chock full of cliches. It's lying to us.
Almost every perk at Google I had at Microsoft. One of the biggest things keeping me from being fully invested in securing a position at Google is knowing that the salary is approximately the same at Google while the cost of living in Silicon Valley is much higher. You may not think about salary (beyond having enough to do what you like) but it is a very real maker/breaker for me.
nauseating kitch is the cornerstone of german culture
hahahaahahah. no.
This is backed up with no citations and it is from 2006. Also of note, it is written by a software engineer and not a doctor. Not worth much in my book.
Mine are on 51/5.
Maybe Apple Should Rethink This One?
Grab content from other sites
Bonuses are a one time commitment, while raises compound. This is a big deal.

You're right. The distribution isn't clear. It doesn't sound like a flat 10% raise. Yet, it is a 10% raise, no?
The release early and release often is an often repeated mantra, the problem is that it's only about half true and mostly misunderstood.

The reason for releasing early is often stated as that the user feedback will guide your product and design. The problem is that user-driven development is a crapshot, as Henrik Ford famously being quoted: "If I'd given people what they asked for I'd built a faster horse".

The core idea of your product needs to be in place and well implemented when you release, you don't need all the features but first impressions do matter. The main reason for releasing early is that most people can't recognize a good idea so it's better to release early than toil on some idea for years before realizing that you're the only one finding it useful

First mover advantage is highly overrated, after all, apple didn't build the first touch-screen smartphone, they simply built the "first" one offering a great experience.

So find a balance between polish, features and time to release, don't just release something half crappy to see how people react. The road to success is paved by ideas that were basically good but were implemented poorly and then discarded before given another chance.
My experience is that programmers are treated as a cost rather than an asset, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. What Google's public announcement means in that context is that no programmer should accept anything less than a 10% raise. "Why should Google employees get that and not us?"
That looks like some extra long rant about nothing.

What data does this guy want? You can pull out nearly everything about a user via Facebook's numerous APIs, if they grant sufficient permissions.
I apologize for being a little bit pedantic here, but a B-tree is not the same thing as a balanced binary tree, and a SQL database is something different still. Even if the SQL database happens to use binary trees somewhere in its implementation, using that database is not at all the same as using a binary tree for your data structures.
Not sure what Goethe and Beethoven might have to say about that ...
We Won't Fly
You're right to be suspicious. Juices like orange juice and apple juice hit the same 40g of sugar per 12 fl oz mark that Coca-Cola hits. It calls into question the entire post. It should be noted that the subtitle of the blog is "News, Video Games, Movies, Technology and Humor". This might be a humor post.

Coca-Cola isn't good for you. It's high in sugar, has minimal nutritional value, and its acids are terrible for your teeth. However, the amount of sugar in it is not out of the ordinary (when compared to 100% juice products). In fact, grape juice has nearly 50% more sugar.
I'm really getting tired of the pricks that down vote people for no reason. Pieces of shit!!! One of these days I'm going to get so pissed off that I will create a script to create 1000 hacker news accounts and to automatically up vote any comments that get down voted to -4. And if you think you can block me, think again. I'll attack from many different ip addresses. See how you'll like it. I'm talking to you pieces of shit that down vote just because you have a tight ass. Why don't you go and play with your fucking dildo's assholes.

By the way, this is not directed at you melling, I hope that is clear. But rather at the assholes that down voted you just because they have a tight ass.
Where do the 4 missing minutes go?
But why even have privacy settings if you're not going to try to enforce them?

That's a question for Facebook, not us. Don't you think?

However, the thing about Facebook isn't just that doesn't respect own privacy settings (which it hasn't). The thing is the concept of providing strong privacy while sharing within a set of intersecting friendship is essentially contradictory and impossible.

This (impossible) promise is very convenient for Facebook, however, since serves as an incentive, a pretext, for all-controlling environment. Consider, how do you keep your information safe while sharing it? The answer isn't "something sort-of like DRM". The answer is that is exactly, fully the definition of DRM. What Facebook is promising boils down to personal DRM (ie, impossible and opens the door nefarious third parties, etc).
I've been telecommuting for about a year and a half now. If there's one piece of advice I have, it's to keep a clear distinction between work and home.

For about the first 8 months, I would be logged in to work for about 14 hours/day (not necessarily working, but logged in and checking/responding to emails and IMs) and even found myself quickly logging in before going to bed - just to make sure nothing new popped up (which it rarely, if ever, did).

Eventually, I had to force myself to keep "normal" hours - no more sleeping in until 10 and then working till 1. "Clock out" at 6 and leave it at that - everything will still be waiting for you tomorrow, I promise. =)
I don't really like bonuses. I am going to work hard even if there is not a carrot on a stick, so just give me my money now.
Not Lisp is a "feature"
"Easy transition from Java", and Java has a checkmark. Go figure.
Oh, you mean like .NET?

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/168

Yes, I am aware of the problems of this, too.
* Not as stable as the Java backend ever was
* Any code that used Java libraries explicitly needs to be rewritten
* Stallman is going to throw a hissy fit about it being .NET
Funny that they're Swedish - Swedish is one of the few non-English languages for which there is a version of Dvorak - it's called Svorak.
Yeah, I think there's a Danish Dvorak as well. Pretty useless for Japanese, Russian, or Arabic though. :)
The telecom market is certainly big enough and 100m should not be such a big problem. As such a lot of new uses of telephone are being identified and we have been seeing them even in our platform KooKoo. You can find more of my thoughts at http://cloudtelephony.blogspot.com/2010/11/phone-use-cases-d...
Privnote gets EuroPriSe certification
A professional ping pong coach? You guys are dedicated.
It's not that stupid; the more targeted your site is, the easier it is to make it look like the perfect match for a very specific search. That's why it's called a "traffic funnel," since the process takes a broad array of search topics and eventually pushes all of them back to a central site.

Imagine that you're in this to create more than the traffic funnel. You would want to integrate the content for popular searches into a site with additional depth and subsidiary business - e.g. if you sell carpentry products, you might also put up articles about basic home repairs.

If you go 100% of the way, build a brand image around the content, and then sell a product at the end of the line, the funneling process should give you lots of new business. You've established an "instant relationship" with customers through your content, which will put you ahead of most competitors.

People trying to scale this horizontally, like your employer, are only doing the first step in the process and working out deals to secure the others. But I don't think it's a good long-term business. The low-quality content you're pumping out will gradually get eaten away by stronger niche competitors.
It didn't come across as fake to me. I'm pretty sure the HN audience wouldn't be their target market anyways.
It's so great to see Valve sticking with this franchise. I've had a lot of fun with Team Fortress 2, and I'm really looking forward to this new loadout of classes and the bold new visual style this is exploring. I can't wait to play nerd-on-artist matchups!
Ask HN: Recommendations for an enterprise wiki?
I'm looking for something geared towards a small to medium enterprise environment, version control, user authorisation and the ability to export information out of the wiki software in convenient ways are all pretty high on the list. Any recommendations?
France's Latest Pop Star Is A 2D Cartoon Groundhog created to sell ringtones...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_la_Taupe
But I'm betting people will notice when their bonus is smaller this year than last. This might backfire a bit.
500M+ Dump of Kinect Sensor Data
Phone Timer apps. TinyAlarm, an egg timer.
Offline HTML5 canvas app in Python with django-mediagenerator, Part 1: pyjs
Atlassian Confluence: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
If you are seriously worried about the performance implications of a binary tree vs. the Python hashes, you are working in the wrong language. Whatever performance implications you are worried about are utterly dwarfed by the Python penalty.

I am not being sarcastic or cynical. There really isn't much point in really nailing some of these things to the wall in Python or Perl or Ruby or the other interpreted languages hanging out at the bottom of the shootout[1] because you've already thrown performance out the window as a consideration just by cracking open your editor and starting a new file. This is an argument to take up with languages much higher up the shootout.

[1]: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ , if you don't know what I mean by that. The benchmarks there may not see all and know all, but they aren't meaningless, either.
Thanks for mentioning me in the post, was not necessary but appreciated nonetheless.
precisely fuck all since they're dead, both literally and in terms of everyday german culture?
Is it possible to extend the idea with equations (handwritten) as input, and produce the corresponding Latex source as output? That would save lots of time.
What about RIM? It uses J2ME for everything. I know it is not a big platform but it is still important.
Building a Dropbox file browser using dropbox-node and Express
First 3D-Printed Car Hits The Road