throwmesomeseo

Keep in mind, not everyone has the newest shiny iPhone7 in the world. The HN crowd probably is not representing the average iPhone user.

We're working on that, in a marketplace usually one side is easy making traffic profitable, the other is much harder (asymmetric).

If you're a marketplace it's mostly SEO (and branding). Yes it's risky to depend on Google.

Thanks!

Thanks for all the help!

We have analyzed those and sadly they are benefitting from them. The sites have no real content, users only click through (we did some user research).

Thanks for the encouragement, we probably ride it out. Our competitor goes to our customers and shows how he is 'better' on seo (it's relevant to our customers). We probably need to educate our customers more.

Sadly the seo is very heated in that niche, so we went for long tail queries roughly 12 months ago.

Yes we know, we would love to get of the seo addiction, but for us others channels are not working as good (we do newsletters, FB, Twitter, Google, print etc. also).

The quality is low. It's spun text I assume by some interns or outsourced. They don't make any sense to people looking for info on the subject.

Do you know how they detect those? It looks that even pages with 100 links pointing to only one other site, with spammy domains and keyword stuffed texts still help with Google.

Yes I can, but I'm not sure if it helps.