27 sats \ 4 replies \ @zuspotirko 8 Mar 2022 \ on: SEO for Stacker News bitcoin
Thanks for the input. Search engine crawler optimization is still black magic for me.
1.3) I would avoid special chars in URLs https://stacker.news/~job
hahahahaha
write
preview
31 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 8 Mar 2022
NEVER
I'm a tilde maximalist now. Give me squiggles or give me death.
As a counterpoint, medium seems to do just fine with @ in their urls.
reply
532 sats \ 1 reply \ @tobiTCOIN OP 8 Mar 2022 freebie
haha ok keep your tilde... if it's just a few selected special chars that's easy - but I have seen terrible stuff in the past in some projects... so that's the standard recommendation.
1.3) It's not really a high prio task.
In general all the ideas are just written down while randomly checking stacker.news...
1.1) + 1.4) and in general things to reduce "not really relevant URLs from search engine user's perspective are good ones to start with. 1.7) too
And maybe as a first step to become more news like offer not just "link" and "discussion" but also "article" with maybe min. 200 words. title. description. image, ... (need to look up in detail what's needed)
reply
22 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 8 Mar 2022
I like this article idea a lot
reply
15 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 8 Mar 2022
When SN has a million users, having a sperm tail in each URL would be a great inside joke..
reply