Not exactly.... take a look at the how to articles, walkthroughs, buzz news on the homepage and Q&A community. We're doing some amazing content and Aaron is focusing on short pages that are not ranked in any search engine and, that frankly, we don't let folks build any more (we started with an open system like wikipedia where anyone could build and build they did... now we have a system like MTurk where you have to complete the page before we publish it).
the page we get traffic for ten to have a LOT of content... also, if we see a page gets more than 25-50 page views we put a writer on it to build it out.
so, basically nothing that ranks is a short content page (stub in wikipedia terms).
however, the truth is google doesn't rank short pages except for VERY long tail ones.... and even that is rare.
google ranks you for long, deep content that is updated.
Aaron is making a big deal out a problem that doesn't exist because he is mad at me for saying seo is bullshit back in 2006. :-)
I'm that much of a hacker news user, but I come around here enough to know that this site prides itself on reasoned discussions. We're all supposed to be thinking adults, we can politely read what he has to say and decide for ourselves if he's full of it or not.
We don't need the mob doing the internet version of throwing rotten fruit at him.
the page we get traffic for ten to have a LOT of content... also, if we see a page gets more than 25-50 page views we put a writer on it to build it out.
so, basically nothing that ranks is a short content page (stub in wikipedia terms).
however, the truth is google doesn't rank short pages except for VERY long tail ones.... and even that is rare.
google ranks you for long, deep content that is updated.
Aaron is making a big deal out a problem that doesn't exist because he is mad at me for saying seo is bullshit back in 2006. :-)