Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding

Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by jonknee on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @12:37PM (#10192428)

A Google search for "chef" has them as the #2 hit (both logged in and in Incognito so it's not just because I'm a programmer). Seems like they have the SEO under control.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by anon987 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:13PM (#10192649)

Sure, but expand out and try stuff like "chef cookbook" and "chef knife" or try to find Chef jobs on Indeed.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by ErikRogneby on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:52PM (#10195185)

add devops to your search.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by proksoup on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:08PM (#10192624)

That's interesting that you saw them as #2 in incognito. I just searched chef in an incognito window and got them as #1.

I wonder if my assumption about incognito search results being non-personalized is false.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by jonknee on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:48PM (#10192878)

I think it's probably geography. I'm in Seattle FWIW. The number one hit is a movie from IMDB: "Chef (2014) - IMDb".

The SEO shouldn't actually be too tough because people are quite a bit more likely to link to Chef the company using the word "chef" than anything about cooking.

And hey, Google went with "Go" which is nearly impossible to SEO and it worked out.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:58PM (#10192970)

And hey, Google went with "Go" which is nearly impossible to SEO and it worked out.

Though they do have the benefit of being Google. A significantly smaller team might have had better success than the original Go!, but that's not saying much.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by acveilleux on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:27PM (#10192742)

They might still take language preference and geography (from IP) into account...

Here in PEI, Canada, if I search Chef in incognito, they're #4 and the first 3 hits are for the movie Chef from 2014.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by dougk16 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @12:50PM (#10192531)

Sure, but the question is how much capital they had to put towards getting that #2 spot. I'm an SEO newb so have no idea, but my guess is a fair amount.

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Re:Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding by proksoup on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:10PM (#10192645)

I'm sure the effort they put into SEO matters also ... but ...

I would bet more important though is their search and mind share. More people searching for chef that are actually searching for them.

I think the only way they got as far as they have is because of that search volume, not necessarily their content or the links to their content.

I am basing this on absolutely nothing, just theory ... curious what others think or know?

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