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159 points heyarviind2 | 2 comments | 25 Nov 24 17:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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inerte ◴[25 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42239859[source]▶

Unrelated, but I am thinking about how do I get alpha users for an app I am building, and decided to check Product Hunt if they offer any sort of feature to help with that, and I ended up on this page https://www.producthunt.com/questions

Looks like someone is trying to pull a Forbes...

And I guess related to you, please don't do that :)

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1. etewiah ◴[26 Nov 24 08:07 UTC] No.42243533[source]▶

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Crikey, that looks horrible...

Any ideas what that is about? Sorry I don't understand the Forbes reference.

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2. inerte ◴[26 Nov 24 15:32 UTC] No.42246612[source]▶

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Forbes, a name that probably makes people think about business articles, has been publishing all sorts of non-business pieces and they did extremely well on SEO because the domain has a lot of authority and inbound links.

So well that basically people were speculating the SEO part would take over the more traditional business.

Google caught up recently (as in a few weeks ago) and has heavily punished their ranks.

Ironically if you search Google for “Forbes SEO” you’ll find many articles about what happened. I think it all started with something titled “The parasitic company trying to take over Forbes”

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