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dougunpluggedon An experimental guide to Answer Engine Optimization

Can you track: - Clicks from each answer engine - Number of pages with clicks

Also add Bing Webmaster Tools to your site to track citations and grounded queries: https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/February-2026/Introducing-A...

dougunpluggedon Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments

Thanks. Well received. The issue was resolved.

dougunpluggedon Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments

I was double billed and using your support chat widget resulted in "Opps.. Seems somethig went wrong". Nick, how do I get in touch with you? My user ID is "VvAShB".

dougunpluggedon Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

Sites like ahrefs.com, semrush.com and majestic.com can show what sites link to your site. Looks like your site boehs.org is pretty popular with thousands of backlinks. Your top linked pages are: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo... https://boehs.org/node/truth-social https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything

dougunpluggedon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote (NYC)

I have 13 years experience in digital marketing, with a focus on SEO for SaaS startups. I've worked with multiple unicorn companies to improve their traffic from Google resulting in millions of clicks and new revenue. Tell me about your business and I'll share ideas on how to grow it.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasapierce/ Case studies: https://www.cogney.com/our-results

Email: doug at cogney.com

dougunpluggedon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (NYC)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasapierce/ Case studies: https://www.cogney.com/our-results

Email: doug at cogney.com

dougunpluggedon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2022)

SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area or Remote

Grow your user count by increasing your search traffic. I have more than 10 years of experience in content marketing / SEO and the results to prove it.

• Ex-Airbnb and Coinbase

• Helped The New York Times, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Congress uncover illicit SEO practices

• Brings to the table an SEO process that achieves results in as short as two months and in the most competitive of markets

Case studies: https://www.cogney.com/our-results

Contact: doug -at- cogney.com

dougunpluggedon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)

SEEKING WORK | Hong Kong | Remote ok

I have a ten year track record in SEO working with some of the world's biggest companies including Airbnb and Coinbase. If you want to grow organic search traffic to your site, you should get in touch. Check out my case studies: https://www.cogney.com/our-results

Email: doug (at] cogney.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasapierce/

dougunpluggedon How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]

Not for long: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-plans-law-to-tie-mobi...

dougunpluggedon Mastering Pinterest SEO: An insider's guide

What John says in this post about "Pinterest as a source of inbound links" is false. Pinterest uses rel="nofollow" on external links, which severs any value the links have for SEO.

For example:

Pin collection page: <a class="GestaltTouchableFocus" href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/83131400/ornaments-pine-cone-gn..." rel="nofollow"

Pin detail page: <a class="linkModuleActionButton" href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/83131400/ornaments-pine-cone-gn..." rel="nofollow">

You aren't going to improve your SEO by being on Pinterest, at least by getting links from Pinterest. It's possible someone else sees your site from browsing Pinterest and then links to it from their site.

dougunpluggedon Ask HN: How to stop Google indexing dynamic search pages?

Don't do this until Google sees your new robots meta directives (or canonical tag) on these pages, that way they will drop from the index. Then you can add this to your robots.txt to prevent it being crawled again.

dougunpluggedon How Qihoo 360 Won the Browser War in China

Author of this piece here. AMA. To start, no I wasn't paid by anyone to write this, have no position in Qihoo, and have no affiliations with Citron, Muddy Waters or Qihoo.

dougunpluggedon Show HN: textlaundry.com

I run http://www.ShinyEnglish.com for a smaller niche: cover letters.