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• Commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
  I'd like to suggest that there seems to be a strong SEO component to this issue. For example learn.perl.org doesn't actually use the text "Perl tutorial" on the front page, which is bad if people are searching for a "perl...
• Commented on Why so puzzled?
  Couple of points from someone working at a hosting company. Most people think $3/month is a total rip off. Why? Because even though they spend more at Starbucks they are told that they can get it for $2.99 and therefore...

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• brian d foy commented on Why so puzzled?

  Yes, drug dealers may give out free samples, but have you ever looked at the economics of dealing drugs? It's a very high risk business that takes over your life and returns little reward requiring you to constantly find new people to deal with, all the while enriching a very small group of people. Dealers dream of making it big while very few do. Your metaphor illustrates my point quite well. You'll spend most of your time dealing with people you don't really want to deal with, and most likely wasting your time in the end. You'll either get clean, abandoning the project all together, or…

• StommePoes commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)

  Meta keywords are almost entirely useless. Because, as so many other things, they were ruined by spammers.

  Yahoo bots do look at it, but they don't count as anything towards perceived relevancy.

• barricas commented on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)

  Have the 'known good' tutorials link each other, or perhaps have learn.perl.org link them and perhaps provide a 'certified good tutorials' image link. Automate this as much as possible.