Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword (bip.so) 4 points by Chirag 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] phanis 3y ago ↗ Wow! This is a cool hack!My content strategy always revolved around looking for high search keywords. [–] Chirag 3y ago ↗ True. I think building a good repo of keywords would be interesting. Want to see how can we using the ML for building these keywords repositories.
[–] Chirag 3y ago ↗ True. I think building a good repo of keywords would be interesting. Want to see how can we using the ML for building these keywords repositories.
[–] suryaboddus 3y ago ↗ Most of the time keywords with low search volume translates to lower competition as well. Its a great hack to get views in cost effective way. [–] phanis 3y ago ↗ But here they got traffic by using Medium's publications, recommendation engine and getting featured in editorial content, not through search!
[–] phanis 3y ago ↗ But here they got traffic by using Medium's publications, recommendation engine and getting featured in editorial content, not through search!
[–] bediger4000 3y ago ↗ What is Ahrefs' business? Sure "SEO", but what does that mean, exactly?They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-websiteSince SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough. [–] phanis 3y ago ↗ Infinite web site is interesting!
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 41.1 ms ] threadMy content strategy always revolved around looking for high search keywords.
They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website
Since SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough.