[a5seo]

In some ways, I'd like to keep SEO's awesomeness a secret from the HN and startup community.

As a developer (I'm not a engineer or computer scientist), I love to build stuff and see people use it. If you build things that are usable by Googlebot (as in, easy to crawl, easy to perceive the content's quality, easy to categorize and associate with keywords) and worthy of citations (links), then your reward can be astronomical...

My last site was a SEO-driven UGC site and I sold it for $10M before I turned 32. I never paid a dollar for marketing, I was the only owner, and I never had more than 5 employees. And with my help, it doubled in revenue after I sold it. It was a fantastic business. Now I'm pretty much free to work on what I like.