Why hasn't this platform exploded in usage?
The community here is so authentic and actually cool
Do the admins do marketing? 👀
Do the admins do marketing? 👀
26-30, M
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ElwoodBlues · M
I think one of the problems with promoting this website is the inability to post good links.
From Inside this website you can't post active links to any pages outside. Not even Fox News or CNN or Wikipedia. Most of the links I would like to post would be to major news sites; surely the admins could maintain a list of 50 sites safe to link to.
From the outside, you can post a link to a question, but not to a specific answer or thread within the question.
The best way to get more eyeballs to a website (aside from expensive marketing) is to make it findable in search engines. Search engines consider a page "good," and therefore high in the rankings, if it has "good" links to it and "good" links from it (yes, it's a circular definition of "good;" search engine math deals with it). Since we can't post out-links and since in-links aren't specific enough, we are almost invisible to e.g. google users.
From Inside this website you can't post active links to any pages outside. Not even Fox News or CNN or Wikipedia. Most of the links I would like to post would be to major news sites; surely the admins could maintain a list of 50 sites safe to link to.
From the outside, you can post a link to a question, but not to a specific answer or thread within the question.
The best way to get more eyeballs to a website (aside from expensive marketing) is to make it findable in search engines. Search engines consider a page "good," and therefore high in the rankings, if it has "good" links to it and "good" links from it (yes, it's a circular definition of "good;" search engine math deals with it). Since we can't post out-links and since in-links aren't specific enough, we are almost invisible to e.g. google users.
AverageMuslim · 26-30, M
@ElwoodBlues that's a really good point actually
@ElwoodBlues The problem with links is they take up bandwidth and they timeout after a while leaving big holes in the content. You can see a lot of that on Facebook, things you linked-to vanish. You can always shift-windowskey-s to clip an article, save as .jpg and then insert into your comment.
ElwoodBlues · M
@JamesBugman So you would prefer if the World Wide Web had no links?
@ElwoodBlues Links that expire are not very useful. They make it easy for immediate content posting but leave a mess later.
Some sites don't allow links at all as they eat up bandwidth on their servers. Bandwidth costs lots of money.
Some sites don't allow links at all as they eat up bandwidth on their servers. Bandwidth costs lots of money.