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Something an SEO professional would be able to fix

yep makes a huge difference... as explained here as well http://webmarketingschool.com/no-twitter-did-not-just-de-ind...

Are you a lawyer? I hope this is not legal advice you're giving, because the general best practices I've always learned using pictures in marketing material: "Never show brands or products names"

You really think Craigslist is able to disrupt this vertical. When was the last time you saw something innovating coming out of Craigslist?

Headline is disturbingly inaccurate

Don't you know that this is a simplification of the fees for casual sellers, where before, there were multiple tranches for listing an item, and if it sold successfully, you also paid a final value fee.

The new fees represent a simpler and better to understand system, where the first 50 items per month for casual sellers are free to list, and easy to understand final value fee.

This is in fact a decline in % of what you would pay!

What makes you doubt that? If there was no money to be made, these wouldn't be spam, Viagra Wordpress hacks or Phishing attempts.

You have no idea...

You know there is a reason they don't participate on these forums... It's a waste of their time! They are so busy working their strategy, making money on the web, that any time spent on a discussion like this, while no money is made, is very low on their priorities.

I think you just proved the point here: SEO can be very valuable. Any good SEO would point out to the BBC that having similar rules for User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile and User-agent: * is not very efficient.

noted..

Off Topic: For Slashdot's 15 years anniversary, in the month of October, everyday there is a different community submitted logo on Slashdot!

All these Interviews are done for the 15 yrs anniversary as well with famous Slashdot active users...Today Linus, last week Wozniak: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/1527257/ask-steve-w...

Did you try the new Slashdot mobile app which was also launched today in Beta..? http://slashdot.org/journal/290575/introducing-the-new-slash...

maybe not too hip for Reddit, but still an active Slashdotter to this day..!

Wozniak is actually answering questions in real time, and appears to take his time to get back later today!

Well, Eric Schmidt once said: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" or "Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.”

Pretty scary if you think about it that the same guy completely banned a CNet reporter from all Google briefings just because he showed a case of all the information he could find through Google on Eric Schmidt...

It's only funny until he gets a Cease & desist letter from Yahoo Lawyers for misuse of the brand, logo and buying a domain with a trademark in it..

I think the first is true, lots of upvotes less comments, probably because people are in general interested but not knowledgable enough to answer the question. The second, it might be that people who comment don't agree with the question, and see an upvote as a vote for your question.

You might want to ready my answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/If-I-have-a-website-with-millions-of-un...

Where I explain how we did this at eBay when I was working there. eBay is quite unique from the fact that millions of new URL's get created on a daily basis, with a short lifespan.

Maybe people jump on this comment because initially it was said he agrees with the post, but because John is an SEO by profession the post can't be good!

@PlanetGuy, You would be surprised how much SEO best practices you need to successfully launch a project nowdays. I see so many startups with great concepts, clean code and user excitement, but if you fail to be returned in the search engines for queries your potential user base is looking for, your growth might be limited to the viral word of mouth.

That's where the so called "viral" strategies come in, leveraging the social integrations and viral sharing described in the article. Quick hacks to gain the user growth you need to become a viable business.

A great launch plan does incorporate good SEO and search visibility. Denying SEO is adding value for your projects/startup or company because there are scumbags out there, is IMHO putting you at a disadvantage vs your competition who are looking and taking advice from people like John!

There have been plenty of insightful discussions here at HN about the need for SEO. Rather than spilling negativity and dismissing a valuable service, you might want to try to listen and learn something.

At least it's not an issue with the speed of Google indexing, as this HN post is already in their index, and at the top when you search for "I feel the voting system is ripe for abuse and will be used to silence dissenters. By making it anonymous you're really making it too easy for that to happen."

Really.. Dropbox.. Pinterest.. Instagram... are startups to watch in 2012...

How about changing the title into: "Startups we have watched make it big in 2011"

or he might have been writing an article in a Starbucks working on an open wifi. Anybody who has Wireshark installed can go fish for passwords and other log in credentials in your local Starbucks!

When will people learn that an open Wifi is not secure!

(not claiming this is what actually happened here!)

Unless you point to a way they can easily fix it, i.e. show the solution, I would give feedback behind the curtain.

Posting feedback on a blog comes across like you want to make your own name over the backs of the hard working entrepreneurs, while you are not taking the risk yourself. if you haven't tried and lived their lives, be cautious about criticizing the applications the live and breath every day, and is their life.

And in the mean time, all HN readers who visited the page with the iFrame got cookied with an Amazon affiliate cookie of the "Hacker" writing about this!

I believe it's 600

The changes include the merge of kernel code from the Android project.

I once made pictures in the Computer museum in Berlin of the Zuse first computers. http://thenextcorner.com/2008/01/zuse-computer-tentoonstelli... Sorry, site is in Dutch!

Unbelievable bad article. If anything according to the theory in this article, SEO's would be happy with the chance of getting traffic on two separate keyword high demand bumps. The first bump, high expectations on the iPad 3 launch... getting traffic for the keyword ipad 3. After the announcement, a new opportunity to gain even more traffic on "the new ipad" keywords, with an even larger demand!

This article is so much "linkbait" bashing SEO for the sake of it, to gain traffic from HN.

point taken. I thought you didn't mean it THAT way, however, writing something in a short space like a title can come across completely different than when you say something.

Good luck with your startup, I'm rooting for all entrepreneurs!

Do you really think a title like that would attract high quality Sales & Marketing talent. The title indicates you have nothing but disrespect for sales and marketing, and in your vocabulary it's probably a dirty word.

The market for great analytical marketeers who know finance as well is just booming. You should be lucky if you get good people to react on this thread, let alone hire a great person who can help you build a great company.

You might be young and short sighted. That is not an excuse to talk little about the skills you need to build your company!