Ahrefs hacked Medium to get 200K views for a low search-volume keyword

  • What is Ahrefs' business? Sure "SEO", but what does that mean, exactly?

    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.

  • 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.

  • Wow! This is a cool hack!

    My content strategy always revolved around looking for high search keywords.

  • Good hack to generate traffic on your articles.

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  • nice hack for getting better reach.

  • nice article!

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