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Matt McGee
Personal blog · smallbusinesssem.combusinessweb
Matt McGee writes Small Business Search Marketing, a personal blog at smallbusinesssem.com about business and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Yelp and review integrity. The only comment is about a different post by JWZ on Yelp's paid 'featured review' and says nothing about this blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SEO and web marketing tips and conversation for the small business owner and webmaster. Matt McGee writes about small business online marketing in a language that's easy to understand, and his regular readers add great value by sharing their wisdom and experience in comments, too.
What Hacker News says?
OK, you trust JWZ, but did you read what he wrote, or did you just glance at it and make a snap judgment because you think he's cool? Here's what he says in easy-to-consume bullet points for the TL;DR set: 1) The linked post is four years old. Yelp used to sell a "featured review", but hasn't done that for years because it was controversial (duh). So that part is true, but no longer relevant [1]. 2) Stupid people wi…
Comment linking /yelp-kills-featured-reviews/3073/
on “SF Restaurant Sign Calls Yelp ‘Bully,’ Integrity of Reviews Questioned”Submitted Google, Yelp and Why Review Counts are Meaningless as a story · 3 points
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