Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword(bip.so)
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Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword
https://bip.so/TIL_/content-marketing:-how-to-use-medium-to-drive-traffic-to-your-content-34931c
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Infinite web site is interesting!
Most of the time keywords with low search volume translates to lower competition as well. Its a great hack to get views in cost effective way.
But here they got traffic by using Medium's publications, recommendation engine and getting featured in editorial content, not through search!
Good hack to generate traffic on your articles.
Wow! This is interesting
Wow! Interesting
nice hack for getting better reach.
nice article!
Interesting
Very cool
They seem to have a poorly coded web crawler. I wrote an "infinite web site" PHP program that Ahrefs reacted to very poorly: https://github.com/bediger4000/infinite-fake-website
Since SEO is a major contributor to lousy search results, I'm now just trying to ban them all via robots.txt, but it doesn't seem mean enough.