I'm not sure if this is legit or just an SEO consultant's wet dream. There are roughly 100 sentences, but 44 mentions of the word "depression", and 36 mentions of the word "recession".
It's all about high quality links these days.
Actually, was invited to Ycombinator a couple of years ago was the last group to cut.
So again just a developer no tricks up my sleeve.
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Although, none of the on site stuff matters anymore without incoming links. Get the links and the on-site SEO right (high content/code ratio, keyword rich copy that still reads well, shallow website architecture, human-readable URLs and proper use of <h> tags) and watch out!
Having said all that, I'm not sure how well this reads, and yes 2009recession.com is a little over-optimized to my eyes, but I'm hardly unbiased since I'm an seo/sem. What else are they going to call it, though? How would you brand a recession analysis website? 2009recession.com pretty much nails it.
That PDF is some killer link-bait, though. A lot of time and research went into that. These are just first impressions, I only looked at it for a minute or two before clicking "back." (I must admit I'm here for the community much more than the content, sometimes.)