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This is some bullshit. It’s bad enough that a lot of sites with content going back 10-20 years have linkrot or have simply gone offline. But I am at a loss for words that they’re disappearing content on purpose just for SEO rankings. If this is what online publishing has come to we have seriously screwed up.
The real reason: hiding it from ai scrapers?
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In a major site redesign a couple years ago, we dropped 3/4 of our old URLs, and saw a big improvement in SEO metrics. I know it doesn’t make sense and that Google says it is not necessary. But it clearly worked for us. I think a fundamental truth about Google Search is that no one understands how it actually works anymore, including Google. They announce search algorithm updates with specific goals… and then silentl…
Which SEO metrics?
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Is this why Google search is really terrible now? The search results are nearly unusable today compared to 1-2 years ago
People have said that for years.
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If you choose to throw yourself on a public forum doing PR for a company doing dumb things and you also insult everyone's intelligence by lying to them, people are gonna be a little rude
"choose to throw yourself" "a company doing dumb things" "insult everyone's intelligence" "lying to them" That's a little hyperbolic, don't you think? Do you even hear yourself? I fully understand Google hate but directing it at one person who is literally just doing their job (and hasn't lied to anyone despite your allegation) is childish and counterproductive. Save that for Twitter. Danny has been here since 2008.…
How long I've been here is irrelevant.
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"choose to throw yourself" "a company doing dumb things" "insult everyone's intelligence" "lying to them" That's a little hyperbolic, don't you think? Do you even hear yourself? I fully understand Google hate but directing it at one person who is literally just doing their job (and hasn't lied to anyone despite your allegation) is childish and counterproductive. Save that for Twitter. Danny has been here since 2008.…
No, I'm not being hyperbolic. There is one reason for the SEO algorithm to reward longer articles, and that's ad revenue. To paint it as anything else is lying. And you opened up this conversation extremely rudely with "OMG are you so dumb you think he owns Google." How long I've been here is irrelevant.
That wasn't me. Maybe pay closer attention?
>reward longer articles
The age of articles was being discussed, not article length. Maybe pay closer attention?
Actually... you know what, never mind.
I’ve found deleting the worst quality ads to be good for everyone. Maybe they are deleting the worst.
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It was clearly a response, yes, but an answer is always better than a response. Thank you for answering!
I am of the opinion that its just internet becoming more spammy and unhelpful rather than google searching becoming bad. Every Tom and his mom seems to have a blog/website which they don't even write themselves. Most of the content on the internet is now for entertainment rather than purpose or knowledge. So, I do wonder if its just the state of the internet these days. As a layman, these days I just go directly to W…
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No, I'm not being hyperbolic. There is one reason for the SEO algorithm to reward longer articles, and that's ad revenue. To paint it as anything else is lying. And you opened up this conversation extremely rudely with "OMG are you so dumb you think he owns Google." How long I've been here is irrelevant.
>you opened up this conversation extremely rudely That wasn't me. Maybe pay closer attention? >reward longer articles The age of articles was being discussed, not article length . Maybe pay closer attention? Actually... you know what, never mind.
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> I mean, people are bad at editing. "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I've written a long letter instead." I don't think it's a conspiracy. Making a long video isn't like writing a rambling letter. It takes work to make 10 minutes of talk out of a 1-minute subject. And mega-popular influencers do this, not just newbs who haven't learned how to edit properly yet.
"Tell me everything you know about Javascript in 1 minute." Figuring out what not to say is the hard part of that question. Rambling into the camera for an hour is easy.
This is something that happens a lot. I'll Google a narrow technical question that can be answered in three lines of text--there's literally nothing more of value to say about it--and all the top hits are 5+ minute videos. That doesn't happen by accident.
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Exactly this, not any different than how they behave with youtube, it seems deceptive at best
Yeah, Google’s statement seems obviously wrong. They say they don’t tell people to delete old content, but then they say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking and also what content gets indexed.