brm 12 days ago

Brilliant that help you've offered is SEO spam. If that's not the Internet in a nutshell I don't know what it is. Good show.

  • 12thhandyman 11 days ago

    At least it gives us all a way of seeing what the link pages look like after completion.

    • bigiain 11 days ago

      There is a "here's ours" link in the first sentence on the homepage. Sadly the css hides all it's link styling. (Proper "brutalist webdesign" would have that as underlined blue text)

      • TravisPeacock 11 days ago

        When he wrote that comment I hadn't added that yet. I do need to make sure the link is underlined though.

  • cabinguy 11 days ago

    2 birds. Seriously though. Adding links to a website for sharing links is now spam? Ok.

    • rendaw 11 days ago

      I saw the reply chain and I feel like there's some fundamental misunderstandings.

      I don't think GP means adding links is spam, they're saying the links themselves are spam (wt definition 2, content automatically generated for marketing purposes) because that's what they are.

      They're saying it's crass (wt definition 2: materialistic, or 1: lacking discrimination) because the goal of TFA is to move away from the machine-curated overly-commercialized impersonal/mechanical web and bring back a web focused on human touch. Creating a list with those commercial, machine-facing pages misses that goal.

      They're not saying it's bad - obviously the only way someone would view your link page is if someone posted the link page somewhere of interest to them, it's not like you're pushing it in their faces. In fact, I think they thought the juxtaposition interesting and metaphoric for current social forces.

      It's possible that you are an SEO geek and find new SEO marketing pages exciting, and have a circle of friends you share marketing pages with, maybe over coffee, in which case the one who misunderstood everything is me.

    • wizzwizz4 11 days ago

      It's the way you've done it: not suitable for people, but (nofollow aside) a good format for PageRank. It's kinda crass.

      If you put "Technology blog" and "Real estate portfolio" (for example) before those two spammy-looking links, it'd make it less viscerally offensive.

      • cabinguy 11 days ago

        [edit] @wizzwizz4 Is it crass to edit your comment multiple times (with no declaration) to address a reply to your comment?

        Lol. Thats how the site works. It asks you for a URL and a title for the link. It’s my page, my account, so I linked to my site when trying it out. C’mon. I’m not going to argue about it anymore. Y’all can keep downvoting me if you want to.

  • bigiain 11 days ago

    At least the links have nofollow on them (so only the ignorant/lazy/fraudulent SEO bottomfeeders will try to abuse this. Which I guess, to a first approximation, is "all of them"...)

nosrepa 11 days ago

I was not expecting to see town names adjacent to mine!

tky 11 days ago

Thanks! That’s all I wanted to see, and you provided a good example. “viscerally offensive” and “SEO spam” made my eyes roll like a slot machine wheel.

  • jdthedisciple 11 days ago

    Yea I genuinely don't get the criticism, what's supposed to be so off the marks about dg's site? Self advertisement? Isn't that what this is for?