David Smooke

David Smooke

HackerNoon Founder & CEO

About

HackerNoon's a small team of editors, software developers, and startup people working to publish the best technology stories and build the best publishing software. We're built for technologists to read, write, learn, and publish. All for free - no paywalls, no popups, no needless pixels - just quality technology stories. HackerNoon's served 1k+ tech companies as customers, published over 30k+ curious and insightful contributing writers, raised $2.6M from 1.3k+ awesome shareholders, and since launch, 200M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology.

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Forums

Richard Fang

4yr ago

What's your favorite mid-day activity?

Been looking for some alternatives or opinions on some midday activities to help clear your head or relax. I've tried gyming but i prefer doing it in the evening.

Markus Jenul

3yr ago

What Content Performs Better? LONG VS SHORT Form Content?

Hey Team Animalz just published their annual benchmark report and here are some of the learnings: - Organic search is the most important traffic source - Longer content generally performs better: The median article length was a meaty 1,200 words, and we found that content length has a positive correlation with traffic - Small blogs benefit from linkable content, newsletters and social distribution - There are big opportunities to improve SEO through better internal linking What do you think about that? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/t...

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