hayksaakian

the main unanswered question I have: "is this for me?". (My company is a marketing agency).

normally I'd expect to see examples of your other clients, testimonials from customers, or case studies.

I saw 0 of this (whether it doesn't exist or I missed it is a separate problem).

Even if your customers are not notable brands, just knowing that someone else uses this and it works for them gives me more confidence as a potential customer.

Note how Stripe for example uses customer logos and real customer examples throughout their sales page. https://stripe.com/

If you're concerned about this, just try asking your existing customers. It sounds like they're involved with sales, so they probably understand the value of a testimonial. You could start the conversation by asking "How do use quotes, reviews, or testimonials in your sales process?".

side note: I like the demo video on the home page. I'm on a laptop screen and wanted to view it full screen so i double clicked the video, but this did nothing.

2nd side note: if you establish yourself within one type of customer, word will spread more quickly about your product, assuming it's actually a better solution.

Based on the example video, it looks like your product is used by remodeling companies

What stands out to me:

- thought out support for mobile devices

- integration with online payments

It's useful for people doing SEO, not much else.

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They could probably fix this by distinguishing between people who don't select a particular gender vs people who Google doesn't know anything about.

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unless you have a competitor you really hates you for some personal vendetta, it's exceptionally rare to see this level of effort for the purpose of negative SEO in 2021.

like I said just looks like a spammer going for low hanging fruit, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks

I think it's just an opportunistic person who saw an easy way to rank their own stuff by taking advantage of your hard work

Like you said -- they ranked higher in some cases (without doing any work besides copying you).

    monkey.org provides for its users domain registration services. monkey.org can also transfer domains from other registrars to our system.

plenty of other options without baggage out there nowadays.

At least I would hope the french scores / standards would be objective enough to be useful.

if california had a "cancer scale" or something it would be more useful than it is today. Maybe that lead paint is "grade a cancer" but your bed sheets are only a "grade d cancer" i dunno.

It seems like they're going to 'own' MDN from a funding perspective among other future proejcts

my short summary is: Mozilla is spinning-off MDN into a separate entity

that separate entity may attracting funding and donations that wouldn't normally contribute to Mozilla for various reasons in the same amounts

Pinterest shows up because they understand how the Google algorithm works and built their website to display all the signals that Google looks for in relevant image content.

They understand user intent and generate URLs that present content in a way that google expects to see.

Examples of how they do this from their engineering team:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/demystifying-seo-wi...

More:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/tagged/seo

having a handful of mentors who can tell you "you're asking the wrong questions, ask yourself X instead" saved me a lot of time early on.

High level thinking combined with effort and luck are what helps you "make it" in my eyes.

If your tech startup should succeeds or fails in spite of the particular corporate credit you choose.

This is the same problem with youtubers who have 0 subscribers obsessing over what particular camera they need to buy, all while people are growing massive audiences with little more than a cell phone camera and a message that resonates.

So instead of paying $260k per year for 10 engineers (2.6M), they might pay 451k for 3 "10x" engineers (1.3M). Costs are 50% lower overall, and if the engineers are even 2x more productive than the average you "break even".

Smaller staff means you need fewer managers.

I'm not saying this is actually how it works in real life (can a developer really be 10x more productive? who know). This is just their operating theory.

Source: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Netflix,Google,Facebook,Micr...

even a 20% failure rate could be tolerable for people who really value the delivery aspect.

I'd appreciate some commentary from anyone with industry experience

how does this compare to other options in the field of educational robotics?

if you paid for 6 loaves of bread, but you only have 4 in your cart that's also a problem.

if your goal is to sell 20 million more bottles of vodka, you could use your existing unit economics and marketing campaigns to scale to 20M additional units

OR

you could manufacture 20M units with a different label and ship them to costco, investing no additional money on marketing for that effort in exchange for a lower wholesale price.

I'm still not 100% clear on how the previous domain was configured with github pages

if it's 1) then you should be able to set up redirects for the domain using something like cloudflare to serve the 301s to the old domain.

if it's 2) then there really aren't any more "simple" solutions that you can implement purely technically. You've already added the canonical reference and the meta refresh. You could also add an A tag link to "Download the software on our new website" in addition to the other measures. Users are already sent over via the meta refresh, but the link will encourage crawlers who skip that tag to find you as well.

If your goal is to show up when people search the name of the software (example: "iterm2"), then the solution is to register on every possible social media website you can find and link them to your new domain. In addition to that it's worth using an online PR service to distribute a press release with a link to your new site announcing the new domain.

If there's a more generic term (example: "mac terminal software") then you've got a longer road ahead of you with a regular SEO campaign.