# How Coinbase Uses Discourse to Educate Customers and Improve SEO
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [Janeiro 13, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863 "2016-01-13T00:00:04Z")
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 13, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/1 "2016-01-13T00:00:04Z")
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with customers, our latest is with John Mardlin who helps traders, devs and humans use bitcoin at Coinbase — partly through their Discourse-powered [community.coinbase.com](http://community.coinbase.com). What is Coinbase? Coinbase’s mission is to make bitcoin accessible for normal people. Our core product is a wallet with +3MM users, which…
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### Author:  [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 13, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/2 "2016-01-13T19:56:06Z")
Thanks @erlend_sh it was fun to put thought into this. 🍵
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 14, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/3 "2016-01-14T01:00:18Z")
I was going to add that I’m still keeping my eye on the topic about warning on external links, e.g. bad guys posting phishing links like this:
`[totally safe and normal link](http://evil-phishing-site.com/bad-link)`
It might be best to warn (if enabled) on TL0 posted links, like so:
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 14, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/4 "2016-01-14T07:28:14Z")
“Improving SEO” must be one of the best and often technically overlooked discourse features.
For one, [www.discourse.org](http://www.discourse.org) have no mention of “SEO”, “engine” or “google” (in this sense) after a quick CMD + F.
Very good word choices for the title! 🙂
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### Author:  [@FichteFoll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FichteFoll)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 14, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/5 "2016-01-14T12:16:22Z")
I suppose we should be opening new topics to discuss feature requests mentioned in the post?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 14, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/6 "2016-01-14T12:17:24Z")
Yep. “Reply as linked Topic” should do the trick nicely 😉
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### Author:  [@bradydowling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bradydowling)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 15, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/7 "2016-01-15T00:02:31Z")
@john_mardlin incredibly helpful to read about your SEO strategy and results.
Also, I am intrigued by how you link up your knowledge base and Discourse as that’s a balance we’re trying to strike as well and we’ll probably just move forward, copying your approach with “feedback” buttons on the bottom that link to hidden docs.
@codinghorror I’d love to see more blog posts about how people use Discourse, this was really helpful.
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### Author:  [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 15, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/8 "2016-01-15T03:03:11Z")
> [@bradydowling](#):
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> as well and we’ll probably just move forward, copying your approach with “feedback” buttons on the bottom that link to hidden docs.
Go nuts.
It was a lot of work at first, but we eventually found some tricks to simplifying the process. The key was instead of manually creating a new topic, we made use of the `/newtopic` [URL feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-a-new-pre-filled-topic-via-url/28074), and built a spreadsheet of all our KB articles:
Hopefully that’s enough to help you reverse engineer the process. 😄
To @cregox, SEO was actually more of a pleasant side effect. I typically think of SEO as a marketing tactic, although for us it’s almost entirely SEO for people to help themselves. Though really the lines behind customers service and marketing are blurring, and both are good things to have. 📈
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 18, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/9 "2016-01-18T06:34:47Z")
weird. I just got notified that I was mentioned in this one. link and screen (if the second one do load up):
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/8`
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Abril 18, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-coinbase-uses-discourse-to-educate-customers-and-improve-seo/37863/10 "2016-04-18T21:01:40Z")