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SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION!

I repeat:

SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION!

If one improves a factor on their own site, it doesn't mean that will make a lick of difference in rankings because:

1. That may not be the factor holding a site back, and

2. It may be the site is performing as good as possible because users do not want that type of site in the SERPs.

SERP construction - what goes where - has a bigger impact on rankings than any one other factor, e.g. maps vs images versus news, and that has less to do with one's own site, and more to do with user feedback.

I'm cool with paying for the work he has already DONE, I don't need new work or new things, the back catalogue, even if it was free, would be something that $9 is and amount I'd happily pay.

This site is a classic example of not over doing anything. It is about conversation and knowledge, and NOTHING else. An extra minute on table-less design would be a waste.

That is EXACTLY what is supossed to happen. Google runs a SE with over 5 billion URLs - if anyone tells you, or told you, that a transition was seemless and instantaneous, they lied.

To explain why, Google has this flow:

1. Crawl the old site - once it finds 301 redirects, it kills the old site and has no data on the new site yet.

2. Google crawls the new site, and starts to apply the old sites criteria - this is NOT, repeat NOT instantaneous.

3. All the "pre processed" signals are applied from the old to the new site.

22 days is a pretty short time to see things come back better, and I'd thank my lucky stars!

But dude, you are in PERTH - the most isolated city in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are far less like that, especially now the dollar is high and we are starting to get better cultural acts visiting.

And I think many Australians have seen as much of Europe as most Europeans - if not more.

I hate that when I was in NYC, every night had a band or play or comedian that I wanted to see, but I wonder if Sydney is worse than, say, Buttfuck Iowa.

A competitive financing market, where college hopefuls compete for access to lenders' funds, and lenders compete to get quality students, could work well.

It seems that private lenders, if they could make interesting loan agreements, would be the best equipped to provide substantive loans to whomever, and we wouldn't see ridiculous degrees and subjects surviving, as students are incentivised into more productive areas.

> unequal sharing of scarce resources created more incentive to migrate in search of additional resources.

In other words, societies where some have less encourage the lesser havers to move in search of better opportunities. So you are right, with the added benefit that even in other times, the lesser are encouraged to migrate and spread.

> Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion.

Where is the coercion? Is there a threat here to do something? I can't see it. In fact, the opposite - the damage is already done.

The coercion would exist only if there was a threat to do something bad from the extorter, which really, I can't see at all.

If you are going to launch this, can I suggest that, rather than IP detection, you build out a series of pages for each location, e.g. New York City, London etc.

That way you can get SEO traffic (London has a non-ajax, SE crawlable page), and also provide people a better experience when they plan to go somewhere (e.g. London from NYC).

Lastly - revenue model? I assume affiliates for hotels etc? If so, you need traffic, so see my first point :)

If they buy a company making $500,000 at 4 times (for $2 million) the publicly listed companies value goes up, at a 10 times multiple, by $5 million.

Spend 2, and increase own value by 5, for a net of 3 million. Seems like a nobrainer really.

The goal of SEO, good SEO, is to build a site that caters to both users AND SEs. After all, users make you money, and ignoring one over the other is silly.

A classic example is AJAX. SEs can't pass it, and neither cana lot of users. A "good" designer may know this and buid a site to cater for these users, but how? Will it use forms (invisible to SEs) or an alternate structure?

Sure, a great web designer may "get" all this, but can you be sure? Given that SEs provide the largest, ongoing form of traffic online, why take the risk?

"I make something, like some small open-source software, put it on GitHub, and it shows up as the first result on Google within hours if you are searching specifically for something like it. I didn't have to hire a SEO."

Fallacy of dosage: ranking for a service with little competition is pretty easy. Capturing the whole raft of traffic available on a topic: difficult!!

That's a touch simplistic. Spread the word where? To whom? How?

The issue of getting customers is so complicated that we are all here, reading, learning and coming up with ideas to be a success.

What is "needed" to get customers varies by market, by demographic, by expected return, by quality of product etc etc.

To be a success, a site needs to serve a customer base and then MARKET TO THAT GROUP. SEO may be imperfect, but what SE have is every demographic, identifying themselves clearly, by the keywords they use. Missing out on that traffic is just crazy.

This is the same BS that gets spewed about everything "If you have a great product, you don't need marketing", "If you're a great writer, you don't need an editor" etc etc

A web designer / developer is someone who builds web pages and/or sites. They can be good designers, bad, indifferent. They can know some SEO, none, or all of it. They can focus on server code, front end code or both, again to varying degrees.

But SEO != web designer is simple to prove: if I rank 10000000 for a term, the web designer still did his job :)

Whether this mythical "you" needs to hire an SEO expert or not depends on so many things.

And lastly this comment is just bizarre: "Social media is rapidly becoming much more important than Google." Seriously? Really? The $$ made from a Social Media click > an SEO click? Seriously dude, you need to get you some Google analytics and an ecommerce site.

Social Media is to SEO what a park is to a mall. People may prefer parks, they may prefer having fun, but when they want to buy, they go to the mall, and most smart businesses would surely rather be situated in the mall.

I would think if you go freemium, you at least have to offer a compelling "free". 1 GB seems useful, 250MB seems useless.

Interesting how that stuff goes, and also good to have a nice, handy list of all the "when not to"s.

So it is semantically correct, although most modern SEs do not do this, to index a site / URL that is disallowed via robots.txt, using link data alone.

It ws interesing in many ways that are unintentional: e.g. because it shows how to fight this sort of plan: don't allow harm to enter the debate.

That killed cigarettes, so if porn wants to survive, prove it causes no more harm than, say, over-exercising or any other "addiction" to what is otherwise a non-addictive thing.

Otherwise, subfolder is either better (SEO) or a no score draw (everything else).

Nothing has really changed: build something people want, using terminology they use, and get third party citations.

Job done.