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Could this site finally kill the SEO industry?

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There's nothing to indicate the "contact us" link will open up my e-mail client. I'd expect a mailto link to have the e-mail address as the link text. The link as presented I expected to lead to a page with your e-mail address, phone number, a contact form, and/or your postal address.

On the TODO. The views are very lacking at this point. Thanks.

That appears unlikely, what with the site not seeming to do anything.

Did you expand the tree structure?

I tried. It does a very pretty animation as if there are further branches, but it ends up showing the same tree structure (3 sub nodes) that it started with.

What tree structure? the only thing I can see is a blank page with a copyright message below the fold.

Works perfectly fine for me in Chrome, Safari, Firefox...are you using IE?

Try clicking the dot, not the linked text.

a. Try making it so I only have to tap the text and don't have to position my finger directly over the dot.

b. You seem to have reinvented Yahoo?

a. Thanks. b. The difference between this and Yahoo is people can define the page(s) where they want their content to go, though the API has not yet been exposed.

(Taking it as given that you will block spam somehow.) How will you ensure people put their content on the right pages? How will you ensure people look at the right pages for the content they wish to find? How will you order the content on each page — won't this just lead to a new specialisation of SEO?

How is this supposed to lead to the end of SEO?

You definitely bring up some good points here. By nature, I think this site is intended to be sort of spammy. It will be a place where people can post their content at will and tout not only their websites (in numerous locations that make sense), but also their thoughts (and eventually media). I guess it was intentionally designed with the thought that users/clients can control where their content goes, so if they control where it goes, it is on the right page as they see it.

Sure, there will be abusers and I have thought about implementing community driven strategies that allow for removal of that content. Also, I have considered approaches for arranging popular items at the top of the page, or arranging items by date, or expiring the data after a certain timeframe, rate limiting submissions, flagging explicit content, having only trusted clients call the APIs, enabling/disabling links (if you notice, all are disabled currently), etc. I have not settled on one particular approach yet.

With respect to discovery of content, the thought is this would mostly be exploratory based the user’s desires and reliant on the existence of posted content. I can definitely implement some sort of full text searching capability for the site, but that sort of cancels the inherent logical mapping of the content to the indexed host and path. It may be inevitable, however.

Your point is well taken that it may lead to a new specialization of SEO and I wasn’t suggesting that there wouldn’t be some optimization involved. What I was suggesting is that perhaps the site could be useful in eliminating the “industry" of exploiting people’s need for online recognition but their inability to receive it due to lack of technical knowledge (the API makes it quite simple to post content) by giving them control over where content is posted. Anyway, that was the hope.

Horrendous.

The UI or the concept?

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