tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post3792135087922755927..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Reader Mail #66FSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-49942277499219952642008-09-30T17:54:00.000-04:002008-09-30T17:54:00.000-04:00Is the increase in the price of gold due to specul...<I>Is the increase in the price of gold due to speculation in gold, or an increase in the supply of dollars?</I><BR/><BR/>The increase in hoarding due to speculation causes the prices to raise, I think.Anarcho-Mercantilisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05536890545703938679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-23096927753830685742008-09-26T16:14:00.000-04:002008-09-26T16:14:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anarcho-Mercantilisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05536890545703938679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-5896766597057912302008-09-25T15:48:00.000-04:002008-09-25T15:48:00.000-04:00"Regrettably, there is no free market health care ..."Regrettably, there is no free market health care system at this time. Giving birth in a hospital is your only feasible option."<BR/><BR/>How in the hell did you get that idea? There are a lot of pepole giving birth at home, and they don't go anywhere near a hospital. That is exactly WHY I want you to watch the movie!<BR/><BR/>NO ONE should EVER give birth in a hospital.Francois Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04760072622693359795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-42664065838933801642008-09-25T14:54:00.000-04:002008-09-25T14:54:00.000-04:00My post on the AIG bailout has been a huge success...<I>My post on the AIG bailout has been a huge success from a SEO perspective. I still don't get SEO. "Popular in search engines" is rarely correlated with my expectations.<BR/><BR/>When I write articles related to current financial news, those posts tend to do well.</I><BR/><BR/>There's a great reason for this: those are the things that people are searching for! Few know about the compound interest paradox and even fewer call it by the name you do (I've heard it called "debt virus", "interest time bomb", and other things). They don't know about agorism and thus don't search for those things. They are, however, looking for explanations for what's going on in the world around them. Here's where your posts on Miley Cyrus, rice shortages, FRE & FNM bailouts come in handy. They find your site to read about AIG and how much it will cost them and they happen across a wealth of information on how this country got to be this way <I>and the only real way out</I>. I'd consider doing far more posts about current financial market happenings, including discussing fundamentals such as terminology (this has been done), investing basics, etc. You gotta please the customer!thomasblairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068552534715323374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-68896520993042012092008-09-24T01:54:00.000-04:002008-09-24T01:54:00.000-04:00"'Ruby on Rails Sucks!' was another unexpected SEO...<I>"'Ruby on Rails Sucks!' was another unexpected SEO success. A few people google that phrase every day, and my post is #5!"</I><BR/><BR/>Looks like it's up to #3 right now.<BR/><BR/><I>"I'm getting bored/frustrated with mises.org, and haven't posted there in awhile."</I><BR/><BR/>I have really appreciated a lot of the stuff I've learned from Mises.org over the years, and the current banking/financial crisis is another great opportunity for the columnists and commenters to teach us laymen about monetary theory and banking. I am woefully ignorant about it. I'm working on rectifying that. You definitely seem more informed and insightful about money and banking than 99% of the people out there on the interblags, so I, for one, appreciate all the education you could give us. <BR/><BR/>Not that you have to keep setting the pro-State trolls on the discussion threads right. Keep writing lessons on your own web page. I'll be so bold as to suggest the next topic for you: What the hell is a "mortgage-backed security"? I tried learning about them from Wikipedia, but there were so many other terms I needed to learn first that it almost turned into <A HREF="http://xkcd.com/214/" REL="nofollow">this</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-42805114552245754482008-09-23T21:05:00.000-04:002008-09-23T21:05:00.000-04:00I do not feel I was adequately represented in this...I do not feel I was adequately represented in this reader mail.<BR/><BR/>As far as SEO, you're ranking for long tail terms. "Ruby on Rails Sucks" is a 4 word keyphrase that Google estimates gets 210 searches per month. This is good if you rank high for it, but the entire point of long tails is to rank for 1,000 of them, so now you are ranking for nearly a quarter million searches per month.<BR/><BR/>Blogger is a crap platform for SEO. Wordpress is much better. Even hosted Wordpress is better because you can pingback and trackback automatically.<BR/><BR/>Also, your on page SEO is pretty bad. There is no need to leave your site name in the page title of individual posts. It dilutes the keyword density.<BR/><BR/>Your post titles and (in post) links don't have the title attribute of the <.a.> tag defined.<BR/><BR/>Better to abandon blogger. If you were on Wordpress, all of your citations of NoThirdSolution, NoState, CheckYourPremises etc would be building backlinks for you. Obviously, that would hold true for NoTreason, but then you don't link to me, I just link to you. Unrequited blog love.<BR/><BR/>Why wait a couple years to go into business? Get a domain name and throw a piece of free software you coded up there for the world. Use it as a means to promote your blog. To network. To grow professionally. It doesn't have to be complicated. Make sure you can walk away any time you like if you find a job or you want to do something different.<BR/><BR/>Also, there are probably quite a few opportunities online to code and get paid through a 3rd party service like E-Gold. I'd be concerned about escrow, because I hate getting burned by people who want, but can't pay. Just the same, there are smart ways to go about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-62503004349156021732008-09-23T14:50:00.000-04:002008-09-23T14:50:00.000-04:00The article on the Chinese cop-killer was interest...The article on the Chinese cop-killer was interesting. My initial reaction is that perhaps the Chinese have less physical freedom than us, and more mental freedom. It seems logical that the two would be negatively correlated, as more oppression seems like it would result in more dissent. On the other hand, the US has been going the wrong way on both counts for... just about it's entire lifespan, I think.<BR/><BR/>In a rare move for me, I went looking for comments on the article, wondering what people would think about a large public support for a cop-killer, and ended up on digg. I was shocked at how many people supported the guy. I expected nearly universal condemnation, but about half were at least understanding if not outright supportive.<BR/><BR/>But part of our brainwashing is to overplay the conditions of places like China, so we seem better off in comparison, and this was reflected in some of the comments. The Chinese guy was stopped for no reason, kidnapped, and apparently beaten/maimed. Later, his lawsuit against them was thrown out. Very few commenters seemed to notice that events like that already happen on a fairly regular basis in the US, and I've no doubt there would be near universal condemnation (to put it lightly) if one of those victims did the same thing, with the only difference being his location.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com