Ankit Oberoi

Hey Vinny, Thanks for sharing my post :)

You're welcome! :)

If the website uses AdSense, you could report here too: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9892?hl=en

Any webmaster will obviously take it much more seriously, if you're threatening his/her source of income.

CTR plays an important role, true, however, it is not the only important factor. I once placed the keyword searched by the user dynamically on the landing page, which actually helped improve the quality score quite a bit and allowed us to reduce the costs by about 15-18%.

Sean,

Thanks for dropping by and taking the time to answer the questions here at Inbound.

I am Ankit, co-founder @ AdPushup (http://www.adpushup.com) - We're trying to bring the power of Advanced A/B testing to publishers. Apart from content marketing, What (free) technique would you recommend us to reach our target audience comprising of bloggers and small publishers?

Thanks in advance!

Yes, Authorship tag does help. Similarly, social signals are increasingly playing an important role as well - Pages with a lot of +1s, get better rankings.

Glad you liked it :)

True. Threads on HN can be on any topic about with technology. Heck, I've also seen a lot of submissions, outside technology, doing well. However, I still believe there is a long way to go for inbound and the site can easily get 10x (in terms of traffic) compared to what it does now.

Correct.

Comparing it with hackernews, 4 and 5 upvotes can bring you to the homepage, but the best part is that within half an hour or so, the page would either be gone or will get enough upvotes (if worthy) to stay on the HP longer. Now, this can happen on inbound only if we get more submissions, more people checking the incoming section and more readers overall. Very good posts here, can get like 50 odd upvotes, while you'll easily see 500-1000 upvotes within a day on HN. So I guess, with time, the requirement to check voting rings will subside, and only good content will remain on the top.

Sometimes, the content is not really what the community wants, but what it has been forced to see. A mod mentioned in another discussion, that some people post stuff, then a lot of new accounts show up, to upvote those articles; rigging the voting system.

To solve this, we could do what hackernews does. New Accounts should not be able to upvote stuff until they are active and have interacted with the community for a certain time.

Then the good articles (already upvoted) won't get get the attention they deserve and spammers would be happier.

TBH, never heard of anyone apart from Ed. The biggest problem IMO is lack of communication. When a submission is deleted, the author should be informed about the reason. This will help reduce confusion and stop the members from committing the same mistake twice.

I am sure he has a lot of work to do, given the number of flags and submission each day. Why not look at adding a couple of mods to the site?

The link I shared had no affiliate links or ads, but yes, it was my "own stuff". However, I've been sharing from some other sites too. I've seen a few other members sharing their own content but it ends up fine, so not sure if this is the reason why my submission was removed.

Was wondering about the same. Submitted a post yesterday, got about 8 upvotes and woke up in the morning to saw it removed. Had to submit it again: http://www.inbound.org/articles/view/25-stats-about-conversion-rate-optimization-and-a-b-testing

Correct, most of the social links are a no-follow.