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    Getting an organic listing on google

    Just noticed that google has released a tool to let people disavow links to their site. Disavow links - YouTube Obviously you shouldn"t take anything he says at face value, and obviously, they"re using it to weight/blacklist link sources. However, if negative SEO was actually impossible...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    Maybe because the ROI on your time of doing 4000 gigs for $20k over the course of a year sounds pretty shitty if you"re someone who can actually rank something? I assume that anyone slinging fiverr gigs is someone who can"t make more by doing something else with his time. That"s not a...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    Yes, I"m certain that all the SEO"s peddling their skills for $5 a pop are masters of their craft who could spend their time ranking their own sites, but instead, they choose to help out the little people for pennies. How lucky for us all! Wow, not only a fashionista but a SEO guru too. I am...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    All backlinks aren"t equal. Also, if the competition got a link somewhere, you may be able to as well. Just because the competition is currently ranking for something doesn"t mean that they"re optimized for it onpage. If you have a much more focused and relevant page, you can rank it with far...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    maybe more! 4: Ignore it. Is the review page ranking for your target keywords? Or is it in a spot where your customers would routinely research? The best response may be no response. 5: Counter it. Is there any option to reply or explain the reviewee"s side of the review? 6: Outrank it...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    Why? I"m not the one giving shitty advice. Are you drunk or tolling? Google isn"t nebulous, the benefit of just tossing in an rss feed is. Surely you"re not claiming that your proposed rss feed is going to bring 1k visit/day to his site? You can"t be that drunk. Ya, 3 out of the top 10...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    baltimore landscaping - Google Search How many of the top 10 results are content curators? Not many unless you count a few work example shots and tip posts as content curation. Why risk giving people the chance to get distracted from his content and possibly leave the site for a very nebulous...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    One of the keyword analysis service providers did a length analysis on the top ranked pages and found that 2000ish words was the most common length for the keywords in their database. Of course, there were plenty of top ranked pages at other lengths as well, but that was most common. That"s also...
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    Getting an organic listing on google

    Lyrical has a real business with real customers. The last thing he needs is anyone from fiverr within 100 miles of his site. Sure, it might be "possible" to do it that way, but the downside is much bigger than the upside. Hiring a reputable SEO firm is very sketchy business. There are tons of...
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    Defrauding Facebook blackhat thread

    Why not just buy your likes from Fiverr? 9950% ROI not quite enough?
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    I need your votes gutter onslaught NSFW

    They don"t even randomize the list order? They deserve the poll results they get. (You can just open a new incognito window and vote again btw.)
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Does your site show up in the actual search listings for relevant local search terms or are you just relying on google ads? I realize that there are loads of people out there who don"t seem to know the difference between the two (and they are probably much closer to your target market than...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    At least this part of it is ok, because you"re still tracking its performance. People who are already your customers are likely very similar to other people who you"d like as customers, so if existing customers notice your billboard, then it has done it"s job. Not the perfect way to do...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    slap a "Spring Special - 10% off" sticker on the billboard for the next month, see how many people ask for their 10% discount
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    Girls who broke your heart thread

    So the chances of any given random, non-married, Korean chick living with her parents/family (or roommates) is "wild speculation"? So really, what are the things that could make a Korean chick freak out about you stopping by? 1. She has some living arrangement that she doesn"t want you to...
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    Girls who broke your heart thread

    Likely this, or she has like 15 roommates/kids and had strategically arranged to get them out of the apt on the 31st, or married, or subscribing to the "one bf to sleep with, one bf to marry" concept (which is pretty common in Korea as I understand... gotta seem pure to your marrying bf while...
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    Girls who broke your heart thread

    At this point, the only possible choice is to propose. Any answer that involves you leaving would significantly improve your life, and I think it"s pretty obvious that your #1 goal is to be as miserable as humanly possible. Fuck that haters and grats on finding your soul mate.
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    Girls who broke your heart thread

    Oh, quick tip for those of you in Korea with/looking for chicks... (the teaching English thread reminded me somehow) Take them to the Olympic park. The Koreans LOVE their parks, and this one is their king. They"re really proud of the whole Olympic thing too, so they"ll likely be really happy...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I know someone mentioned this before as a rumor, but the press release finally came out:Gamasutra - News - 38 Studios Acquires Big Huge Games I think this is the really interesting clip though: Could we finally get an MMO with truly alternate (and fully viable) gameplay options? Unit based...
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    Girls who broke your heart thread

    To get away from the crowds, you can go to private singing or dvd rooms. Almost every decent building and apartment has a nice park type thing on the roof (really great places to go and drink at night imo), and no one ever uses them. Also, if you don"t mind staying up late, just go to one of the...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Exactly! Only I don"t consider Diablo 2 a quality MMO experience, and I doubt you do either.
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    The statement that I was responding to was basically saying "fewer people required = larger potential audience" by means of excluding the fewest number of people. I realize that this statement wasn"t made in a vacuum, but if you only consider this, it leads to pure solo content. And sorry, but...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Isn"t the logical conclusion of that line of thinking, "We should only make single player games!"? Sure, if everything is incredibly accessible and soloable, the potential market is much bigger. The potential market is also much bigger if your product is web based and freeish. Maximizing the...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Well, bards are a good example, though I never played one seriously, but I"d hardly sayalotof EQ classes were. And ya, the effectiveness of DK"s definitely varies quite a bit with a decent player (I play a DK a bit), though I think much of that difference (especially with WoW) is being aware...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I multiboxed heavily from pretty close to release onward in EQ, and I really enjoyed doing so. However, what I would have enjoyed far more is a playing a single character that takes all of your focus and attention to play to its full potential. That"s not to say that controls should be...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I could be way off base so take this with a grain of salt, but I"ll give it a stab. For marketing, I think you pretty much get hired based on your marketing chops and not having industry experience won"t be a huge barrier. Of course, by virtue of so many other people thinking the same thing, I"m...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    For some people, a job is a job and working to make a toaster is the same as working to make a game. For that type of person, it doesn"t make sense to go into the game industry. No one"s arguing that point. No one is saying that the game industry is better paying or more stable than other...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Everyone knows the game industry has its issues, but that"s hardly a fair comparison. A Fortune 100 company is one of the very best out of the millions of companies in the US, and you compare that to a failed game company? You would do good to get a list of a few hundred game companies in total...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    That"s a pretty bleak picture that you"re paining there. It certainly isn"t for everyone, and if you"re easily dissuaded, then it probably isn"t for you. However, I don"t think the outlook is quite as bleak as you would have people believe. The game industry is still growing, and so long as...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    A phrase that I hear thrown around a lot and that I think holds very true: "If you think you could be happy doing anything else, do it." I"m one of those who isn"t going to be happy doing anything else. If my primary interests were pay, free time, and job security, then going into the game...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Heh, so the things that people enjoy in games have changed radically since the release of WoW? Seems unlikely. Also, just because you haven"t heard of someone, their books are useless? Nice. Try some google: So not credible just because you aren"t familiar with her? Right. If there"s no choice...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Ok, first, I probably low balled the % a bit, but not by much, and I probably should have said pure or non-consentual pvp, since battlegrounds aren"t quite the same as a pvp server, but even still, of those who are in battlegrounds, how many would be there if it was just for fun and not a gear...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    It may be higher in WoW since it is a viable way of gearing up, but it"s fairly well documented that only about 15% of players are really interested in pvp (even in primarily pvp focused games).
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I can choose to fight along the zone wall of DL or in the far corners of HS. I can choose to do either with or without a resser, evacer, or rogue. Are you saying there"s no difference in the risk involved? If so, I don"t really know where else to go with this. That hinges on how you define the...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I think I explained pretty clearly how you could choose what level of risk you wanted to deal with in EQ, though you can certainly disagree if you want. I find WoW far more tedious and far more of a grind (though we"re probably also disagreeing on what "grind" means when I say this) than EQ, in...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    On assets, I think the key is designing things to be intelligently modular from the beginning. It makes sense for things in a given area to share certain characteristics and even certain entire components. If planned correctly, you can create two areas with very different looks and feels while...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    One of the main points they try to beat into our heads in class is that the average player doesn"t want tobegood at games, they want tofeellike they"re good at games. The point really isn"t risk but perceived risk. Almost everyone remember how terrible EQ"s death penalties were, but really...
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    I see, so 255 is multiplayer but 260 is MASSIVELY multiplayer? Glad we got that exact definition straightened out after all this time... If memory serves me, The Realm had over 3k concurrent users on its one server.
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    Why all the nerd rage against Vanguard

    This is true of course, and while I"d love to have been in the room when entire systems were scrapped, it doesn"t really explain why so many little but damned important things were neglected. I can"t imagine the turmoil that pulling the whole "lets be more like wow 180" caused inside the...
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    Why all the nerd rage against Vanguard

    I"ve been playing Vanguard quite a bit and am having a really good time with it. I"ve had some minor problem with bugs and such, but nothing major really. It started out with pretty nasty performance (beta) and has gotten tons better, but even then, I could have lived with the fps I was getting...