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Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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People search for a thing, find said thing, then share it themselves under their own name. You know, like how conversations work in real life

They won't find it if it's so new/fringe that it's deprioritized in search results. You didn't really think this through.

There's a chance pointing a firehose of bullshit at users hoping some of it sticks is the key problem with social media today.

Actual users actually curating cool things they found is a way more sustainable manner of interaction with your fellow humans.

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

#272

Google's always adjusting its search rankings, but it's rare for a legitimate site to suffer such a sudden massive hit without reason. My first thought would be that they accidentally blocked Google's crawler (maybe through some kind of anti-AI setting?) or that Google believes that the site is serving malware or spam. Either scenario can have that kind of effect. I can see that their forum at least appears to have s…

A blocked Googlebot would’ve caused a report of 403s in the Search Console, which isn’t the case. And the subdomain has worked perfectly fine for the last 15 years. You may have a point with the Trainer Central rebranding, but please consider this in the context of Italian language results. It’s not about reaching the home of the wiki (which is pretty much the only page that’s still indexed), it’s all the other searc…

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