Recent content by theblackplanet

Can anyone confirm if this is the case? I get a 500 error every time. :(

Just heard back from support. They gave me new proxies and all of them passed Google. :clap2: The skeptic is now a believer.

Great point, and I am very familiar with A/B testing but how would you know if a specific title made your link clicked on more? What if you accidentally made your title worse and then it dropped lower and because it dropped lower the click thru rate became even worse?

Is this typical for a proxy company? These are all PRIVATE proxies. I'm contacting support to see what the deal is, will report back. Using Scrapebox. More details: 6 failed from 302 moved temporarily, 10 from 403 forbidden and 23 from connection timed out. Edit: Tested them again and the...

Thanks, I thought the text issue was with my browser :)

No offense but I don't really buy it. The Adwords spending bump is likely based on higher CTR for search terms. If Google Ventures/Capital invests in your startup, you don't need favoritism from Google's algo. You have a ton of money to hire SEO people and you already have legitimate...

Is there a software (or method for using proxies) to simulate an improved click thru rate with one's website on the first page results? I've noticed specifically by buying PPC my rank goes up in Google every time, mainly because my page's CTR goes up a ton. I've also simulated this with MTurk...

Apologies for the sarcasm, I am not intending to degrade anything or anyone. I genuinely want to know more about how this site became big and I think it's a great case study everyone could learn from. As for myself, I'm usually a lurker and have never created an account until now because I...

You mean they didn't just scrape a bunch of sites and get a bajillion backlinks? They provided VALUE?

You can guess email addresses because most people just use their first and last name. Use an email validation tool that pings the mail server to see if it exists.

True. There doesn't appear to be a DAU counter like you see on some forums?

Is there an official backstory to BHW? Such as when it was started and why, who were the first members, etc?

Did you try Google books? Should be a ton of content that's not out there directly. You could also buy books on PDF that are not on websites and use it.

Would be great to know how BHW has become such a massive force. I'm guessing there are over 800k members because that's the number in my profile and when I compared it to other user profile pages it looked like a user id.

Great question, I'm also interested to know. Only one I can think of is Adstruc for outdoor banners.