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by cmahler7 3242 days ago
It might seem like that now, but in hindsight the opportunities will be obvious. There were multiple search engines when Google came out and many social networking sites when Facebook came out. There are always opportunities, things just get harder. A lot of businesses seemed indestructible have collapsed, every major car manufacturer and wall st bank would have failed if they hadn't been bailed out in 2008. The same thing can happen to tech companies.

In the SEO world you used to be able to put a keyword on a page 1000 times and then make the text white with CSS and rank #1 and make bank, now that gets you penalized. Spamming backlinks used to work, now it gets your site de-indexed.

You have to have an edge that separates you from the competition if you want to succeed

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Now you need 100 WordPress blogs on individual ipv4 addrs on SWIP'd blocks hosting AI-generated content about a keyword (which search engines can't distinguish from legit content) and have those rank well enough to get real SERP CTR so you can sell your eBook about how to get rich from the Internet (which is itself just generated from a Markov chain PHP script running against Wikipedia articles).

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The Internet has a lot of dead wood and garbage these days.