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https://j0hn.com
I'm still using Evernote. It's become painful. Does anyone have a recommendation for a comparable service? Perhaps one that'll allow me to port everything over easily? ;)
https://johnvantine.com, my personal blog. Particularly proud of these:
- https://johnvantine.com/i-built-a-vinyl-record-shelf/
- https://johnvantine.com/solo-50k-when-2020-gives-you-lemons-...
I have a basic blog at https://johnvantine.com. I've been blogging in one form or another since the late 90s. Life has changed a lot since then, but I still try to post a few times a year. I just wrote about my experience solo traveling in Iceland! https://johnvantine.com/solo-travel-in-iceland-fire-ice-soli...
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles/Remote | Full-time GoodRx helps Americans find access to convenient and affordable healthcare.
Hey all! GoodRx is hiring for many roles, including:
1) Senior (technical) SEO manager with in-house experience: https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/85a82117-81ee-4ff8-aa17-1e48767...
2) Senior BI manager to join the SEO team: https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/6753e321-d3a1-49e9-9996-0a37520...
We have other roles open in BI, data, engineering, editorial, finance, growth, HR, marketing, and more. There's never been a better time to join the team. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions! https://www.goodrx.com/jobs
- john@goodrx.com
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles | Full-time
GoodRx helps Americans find access to convenient and affordable healthcare.
We're looking for a strong product manager to help us take our content efforts to the next level. This role will work closely with research, SEO, data, UX and more as we build and deliver new types of online health content and tools. There's a lot of excitement around this initiative internally - it's a great time to join. https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/a37d2e63-223a-4489-b1c7-54e28b2...
We're also hiring a number of engineers, SEOs, designers, data scientists/engineers, content folks, and more. There's never been a better time to join the team: https://www.goodrx.com/jobs
Questions? Reach out: john@goodrx.com
There are bad actors in every industry. Good job generalizing here. I’m one of those “bottom feeders” you wrote about to promote your service.
I’m sorry you got conned by a snake oil salesman. It sounds like your BS detector is broken. It’s a shame you didn’t do a bit more research to find a credible SEO service (or learn to do it the right way yourself).
"Good SEO” isn’t about “tricking search engines”. It’s about empathy for the user, and has a strong UX component.
If you're creating hollow content, or a poor experience otherwise, why would you expect users to convert, let alone come back to the site or tell a friend about it?
My SEO philosophy/approach is to gain a solid understanding of the intent behind a query/problem, and then create the best experience possible to address/answer that query. When you do a better job at answering the user question than the other sites out there, and your "UX metrics", (i.e. bounce rate, time on site) validate this experience, you're on the right path.
It's obviously more complicated than this, but that's where I start.
“Good SEO” is a long-term bet. “Tricks” that get you ranking on the first page are useless if search visitors bounce from your site once they realize your content is rubbish. Will AI-generated content create a best-in-class experience for a user? I have a hard time believing that it would.
Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying your free traffic.
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles/NYC | Full-time, Onsite (Remote Candidates Considered)
GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. In many cases, consumers save more money using GoodRx over their existing medical insurance.
The GoodRx SEO/Growth team is working on some very exciting projects this year!
We’re hiring two senior frontend engineers to work closely with the growth (SEO and Content) team. 3+ years experience with react and a track record of delivering frontends with core SEO functionality are both required.
We are also seeking a brilliant UX designer to help us create a new kind of digital content that helps people understand healthcare issues and information. Experience with editorial, product design, and data viz a big plus.
For all roles, experience with SEO is a big plus.
To learn more, please contact john@goodrx.com.
The canonical handles the indexation. Your content on your own site gets the credit, rather than the corresponding content on Medium. In theory, you're getting a bit of domain authority passed over from the Medium article. Here's an example:
https://medium.com/@w00t/the-2018-burning-man-ultramarathon-...
Has a canonical tag pointing here: https://johnvantine.com/2018-burning-man-50k-my-first-ultram...
When I search for a snippet of text from the article, the one on johnvantine.com ranks.
And you're leveraging the community on Medium, too, so there's some discovery that can happen on that end. Best of both worlds IMO.
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles (Santa Monica) | Full-time, Onsite
GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. In many cases, consumers save more money using GoodRx over their existing medical insurance.
The GoodRx SEO/Growth team is working on some very exciting projects this year!
We are seeking a brilliant UX designer to help us create a new kind of digital content that helps people understand healthcare issues and information. Experience with editorial, product design, and data-via a big plus.
We're also hiring for the following roles:
- Frontend engineer with React experience
- Editors (health/insurance background a must)
For all roles, experience with SEO is a big plus.
To learn more, please contact john@goodrx.com.
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles (Santa Monica) | Full-time, Onsite
GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. In many cases, consumers can save money by using GoodRx over their existing medical insurance.
The GoodRx SEO/Growth team is hiring:
- Editors (with a health/insurance background)
- A UX designer
- Frontend engineers with React experience
For all roles, experience with SEO is a big plus.
To learn more, please contact john@goodrx.com.
GoodRx | Data Analytics & SEO | San Francisco or Santa Monica, CA | Full-Time, Onsite
GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. In many cases, consumers can save money by using GoodRx over their existing medical insurance.
We're looking to hire a Growth Analyst to work with the SEO team. Amond other things, this person will identify growth opportunities via data analysis, build dashboards that serve up data in useful and insightful ways, and run A/B tests.
To learn more, please contact john@goodrx.com.
I enjoyed my fifteen minutes of fame via e/n, though the attention ultimately resulted in the demise of my site. It was all fun and games until the lines between the internet "playground" and real life were blurred, and my school/parents started getting phone calls. Social media also deteriorated the separation between "online" and "IRL". I retired my site in favor of a career :)
Bing Travel - specifically the price predictor tool.