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BANME.sh
Jan 23, 2008

What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Grimey Drawer

pram posted:

seo is pretty much a crap shoot. people used to buy 'class c ip' hosting because google only parsed reference links from different networks. but that doesnt work. neither does 'friendly' urls or really anything. its all keywords, links in, and site speed/mobile friendliness now

seo for organic results (regular search results) may be crap shoot but if you have a business, there's a lot you can do that can basically guarantees you'll climb the list of local businesses (the little pack at the top of Google with the map) when you search for something like "city name plumbers". that's assuming you are not already in an already heavily competitive industry like real estate. spoiler: I work at an seo company. I don't actually do the grunt work of seo but I write software that automates a lot of things for it.

BANME.sh fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jan 7, 2016

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BANME.sh
Jan 23, 2008

What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Grimey Drawer
none actually. most of the legitimate things we do are actually very simple that anyone can do, but require a lot of tedious and manual work (hence the software side of it). but people are lazy so they'd rather pay us a lot of money to do it for them.

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