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AznHisoka
on Dec 24, 2013
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RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
"We're investing this now". Those 4 words are the Kiss of Death.
cabbeer
on Dec 24, 2013
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Especially when it's from the "head of the webspam team at Google". It's the start-up equivalent of being called into the principles office.
ihatehandles
on Dec 25, 2013
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No kidding
nullymcnull
on Dec 24, 2013
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Oddly, you're the second person to have misspelled it as "investing" when quoting it on this thread. Is this like a rogue / rouge thing that people get commonly tripped up on?
tomharari
on Dec 24, 2013
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Oddly, he's not wrong either:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/
smackfu
on Dec 24, 2013
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Autocorrect is pretty great at turning a typo into an alternate word.
soperj
on Dec 24, 2013
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Post above yours also did principle/principal. The one no one seems to mix up is awful/offal.
peterjancelis
on Dec 24, 2013
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5 words, right?
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