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AI (Artificial Intelligence) Insights from Seer Interactive
Company blog · seerinteractive.com/blogbusinessdataweb
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Insights from Seer Interactive is the company blog at seerinteractive.com, writing about business, data and web. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Seer Interactive's blog for practical web and search marketing material, such as an ImportXML cookbook, a guide on legal policies for websites, and a guide on getting content into AI training data. Comments are mostly bare links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Seer Interactive is a B-Corp certified digital marketing agency, specializing in SEO, Paid, Social, and Analytics services for large enterprises.
What Hacker News says?
There oughta be a list of surreptitious monetization, like the demotivational version HDTMM. http://www.seerinteractive.com/labs/how-do-they-make-money/
Comment linking /labs/how-do-they-make-money/
on “Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user opens their main page”Submitted Seer SEO Toolbox as a story · 124 points
HN discussionImportXML Cookbook: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/importxml-cookbook/2011/... I would love if anyone can add more to it... i'm trying to start a big collection :)
Comment linking /blog/importxml-cookbook/2011/09/17/
on “Web Scraping with Google Spreadsheets and XPath”Submitted Well-intentioned websites get caught in Google’s algorithmic penalty box as a story · 56 points
HN discussionMy $.02 - I handle quite a bit of PPC of clients using google adwords. There has been quite a bit of buzz about what policies to include to be compliant and I just extrapolated that if it's a requirement for Google when it comes to advertising it's not a bad thing to have on your site for other purposes. http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/adwords-gets-serious-abo... I always configure a: Privacy Policy Terms of Ser…
Comment linking /blog/adwords-gets-serious-about-privacy-policies
on “Ask HN: What legal notices do I need on my website?”Submitted Get Facebook Likes in Excel as a story · 26 points
HN discussionYou know, there are services out there to put whatever stuff you want to end up in the LLM training data. No need for an evil government to do it. Here you have something to start reading: https://www.seerinteractive.com/insights/how-to-get-your-bra...
Comment linking /insights/how-to-get-your-brand-in-chatgpts-training-data
on “It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism”Submitted IFTTT for Marketers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Google Following Its Own AdWords Policy for Sitelinks? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Naming Strategies for Google Analytics Event Tracking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Agile Teams, Not Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Ads Removes Search Terms for 28% of Paid Search Budgets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Law of Diffusion of Innovation Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Shadow of Giants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10,462 entries over 4.5 years – what I have learned tracking my time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 lessons I learned while being banned in Google for 12 hours as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring Fail – Hard lessons learned hiring & firing over 30 Search Professionals as a story · 1 points
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