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Re:Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO by jetrink on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:28PM (#20127353)
Back when people used phone books instead of search engines, businesses would choose names that would be listed first alphabetically[1]. Even now, there are three unrelated AAA Plumbing businesses within 10 miles of me.

1. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-11-08-920411...

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Re:Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO by Jarred on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:02PM (#20127637)
My dad's small business construction company was called "AA1 Construction" because he wanted it to be the first in the phone book.
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Re:Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO by itronitron on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:27PM (#20128775)
I know a shop that picked a 'Z' name so that they would be the last place that a prospective client called, their reasoning being that they would only get interesting jobs (the ones that everyone else said NO to) as a result.
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Re:Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO by marvy on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:06PM (#20130380)
did it work?
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Re:Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO by itronitron on Saturday June 08, 2019 @07:27AM (#20131839)
yes, it was a 2+ person prop shop and most of their projects involved some trial and error
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