I got to try one of these out at a wedding last weekend, it was a ton of fun and well worth the price. Going to have to buy one of my own to play around with.

I think its a combination of a few things. Their on page content optimization is great and each merchant landing page is very well targeted. They have great domain authority and are known as a comprehensive source of coupons for the merchants they work with. They promote user interaction with voting and comment mechanisms which increases time on site and decreases bounce rate. Their page also loads incredibly fast and they load in non essential user content after the dom has been downloaded. Not too familiar with their linking strategies but I bet they are pretty good. Basically they have a huge team who focuses on it all day long.

Yeah from what I've heard changing domains is one of the hardest things to do successfully in SEO. This is especially true the older the domain is and the more authority it has.

The previous domain was a little over a year old, but yeah, that could very well had something to do with it. I'm not sure if the domain name change was worth it, but I can say that it made the domain easier to remember, which is always good, and makes me less susceptible to Google changing algorithms.

Did you do a 301 redirect?

Its nice to see Goodsearch showing up on the board as a competitor these days. I've been working as an engineer and the primary technical SEO there for the last year and a half. Goodsearch takes this somewhat shady business model and at least tries to do some good.

I've been able to 5x our organic coupon traffic over the last year but you reach a certain point where the top competitor is just too entrenched. I definitely worry about this being a parasitic practice and Google has been favoring brands more and more in the SERPs. I'm surprised they are getting such a high multiple on their revenue considering the risks.

Seriously. The title is 'why' and there is no explicit explanation.

Ouch, don't try this one on a slow connection.

Nice segue to bitcoin... if there were karma here you would get it

Wouldn't Kickstarter just return bitcoins if the project was underfunded? Would fluctuations in price prevent this?

This made sense until you tagged on the last paragraph. Drug use over a long time certainly builds tolerance and forms of addiction. You offer no proof that people affected in this way 'never work' in real life though.

Link without a paywall?

Incognito mode.

There was basically the same article on medium a few weeks ago titled something like "A shiny content farm is still a content farm". I have to agree... not really new.