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Climbing up the Search Ladder

j_heisenberg writes "Wired carries a story on SEOs or search engine optimizers. Among some bold claims: traffic is up 6 times and sales double, once you hit the first page of results on major engines. The catch: eventually everyone will use SEOs, and there is only one first page."

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  1. Solution by Sophrosyne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make the front page scroll to infinity- then no one can complain.

    1. Re:Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      that should make for pleasant page load times

  2. Ironic by octothorpe99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it be ironic for a Search Engine Optimization company to be on the 2nd, 3rd, or worse, even below, in Google's list? :-P

  3. What I wanna know is... by hanshotfirst · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...how much does business increase or decrease when the moderators post an ad^H^Harticle on slashdot?

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  4. Re:SEO is essentially stupid by bonch · · Score: 2, Funny

    What got/keeps people at slashdot? Content or optimization?

    The correctly-spelled original content that never appears more than once.

  5. How shocking ! by ultranova · · Score: 5, Funny

    A study conducted by a CEO of a SEO company shows that using a SEO company can create a thriving online business, and not using one can mean banckrupty.

    In other news: Mafia concludes that not paying them protection money can be hazardous to your health ! Stay tuned for more headlines from the cutting edge of research !

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  6. Re:SEOs Overrated? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know why you bothered to include the URL, I would have found it accidentally through Google eventually.

  7. First Page is nothing... by supermonkeyball · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Slashdot carries a story on First Posts posting. Among some bold claims: Moderation is up 1000000 times and karma plumets, once you hit the submit button. The catch: eventually everyone will try to do a FP, and there is only one first post."

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  8. Re:SEO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    So that is what the idiots who are constantly spamming by blog call themselves?

    No. They call themselves Roland Pequapaille.

  9. Re:SEO is essentially stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What got/keeps people at slashdot?

    Good fucking question. Goodbye forever, Slashdot. I'm deleting my bookmarks and taking my (what is now a) low UID with me.

  10. Re:SEOs Overrated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Looks like you have a clicky thingy(link) just beneath your nick. Could it be...nah.

  11. Re:Take Search Technologies in a Different Directi by DogDude · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a great idea. Actually, companies like Google and MS and Yahoo could hire the legions of unemployed dot-commers who keep refusing to get a new job/career and let them do it. Sure, every search would take a minute or so, but the results would be great, and all of the dot-commers could go back to the cube life they so enjoyed.

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  12. Thinking Outside the Box by Royster · · Score: 2, Funny

    The catch: eventually everyone will use SEOs, and there is only one first page.

    Obviously, what we need are bigger first pages.

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  13. Re:Google saves HTML? by nkh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you really want to remove Slashdot from Google's database?

  14. Re:Old Real Estate Adage by Feztaa · · Score: 3, Funny

    They want the 8-year-old grandmother

    Ah, the 8 year old grandmother. She must have been busy!