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Pat Walls
Personal blog · patwalls.comdesignbusiness
Pat Walls's personal blog at patwalls.com covers design and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Some Things I’ve Learned About SEO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on SEO lessons the author learned, which appeared in an Ask HN thread on SEO techniques that still work in 2020.
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.
Pat Walls
Most-linked posts?
- Some Things I’ve Learned About SEO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-16
What Hacker News says?
Found these two lists of tips insightful: https://patwalls.com/some-things-i-ve-learned-about-seo https://twitter.com/jdnoc/status/1308741583140007936
Comment linking /some-things-i-ve-learned-about-seo
on “Ask HN: What SEO techniques still work in 2020?”Submitted Logged out as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote every day for 365 days as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple AB Testing with Google Analytics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on Writing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Watching YouTube as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Out as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Things I’ve Learned About SEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prediction: Existentialism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Siddhartha & The Search Itself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Hate Being a _____ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think Week as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Work Never Ends as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter 'Industry' Bullshit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Block Addicting Sites with Your Hosts File as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Managing People as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lost Teen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Definition of Hard Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I miss the pure excitement of learning to code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Waiting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fixed table of contents increases time spent on pages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AB Test: Testimonials at Checkout as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AB test results on Medium's scrolling indicator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I used to be obsessed with productivity apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtuoso as a story · 1 points
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