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Interesting because it shows that bounce-back is a more significant ranking factor than before. It seems like they've manipulated rankings by locking people in to reduce their bounce-back stats (in addition to keyword-stuffed content)
Interesting, the image seems to contain characters from a Russian childrens' cartoon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikoriki )
Some data on their traffic from some SEO tools I pay for: Ahrefs: 230k organic traffic valued at $124k SEMRush: 558k organic traffic valued at $355k These are estimates and can be widely under or overestimated but they show that this is happening on a very large scale. For a quick idea on how this is possible I looked at their top pages (according to Ahrefs). Their top page is ranking #2 for the keyword "interia" whi…
Interia is a large polish web portal, from what I could find. Norwegian people doesn't know it, but polish people might. There is probably around ~2 % polish people in Norway. It also ranks as #1 for me. It's in polish too, so basically only ~2 % of Norway would understand it. However, the weird thing it that it steals content from articles, and then outranks them. Most pages seems to be boosted, maybe as a result of…
Can't fathom Google not catching this..
I've seen the same here in Germany but they do appear only if you use the results within the last 24h functionality. It looks like the German content is generated through GPT2 or 3. It makes no real sense if you read it. If you go on the page you are immediately redirected to a scam just like the article mentions. Interestingly they use ".it" domains here. It also looks like the domains might have been hacked or are…
Almost any search in Norwegian will have obvious scam sites like these in the top 10 results.
Other domains part of the same scam that show up in my results today: mariesofie dot dk, bvosvejsogmontage dot dk
I wonder if it is related to this: https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/en/news/dk-hostmaster-takes-102...
Google search has progressively deteriorated in quality over the last 10 years, to the point where I see it becoming useless in the relatively near future. And it's mainly not even their fault. I've been using Google search for all kinds of research for 15 years. There used to be a time when you could find the answer to pretty much anything. I could find leaked source codes on public FTP servers, links to pirated sof…
It's precisely their fault, they've created an environment that incentivizes low quality, irrelevant content and are actively hostile towards users. Two examples just from top of my head: ignoring the country website, previously if you wanted to search only local news it was very easy to do. Another was ignoring completely the exact phrase search with double brackets.
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I find that using another search engine in that kind of situation is extremely useful! If I'm searching for more mainstream stuff google usually is great but when I'm going for more specialized topics duck duck go will usually bring up some different links!
Pretty much the only alternative to Google Search is Bing. That's even what DuckDuckGo uses behind the scenes.
Or is there some thing that causes Bing to show different results? Perhaps the scammers build a network that targets google because it's bigger?
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Who knows? It's a black box after all. ...but, you know. Can you see anything else they're doing that would give them that kind of ranking? These pages are just piles of crap, and google is pretty good at filtering that sort of stuff out. If it was that easy, google would be filled with spam everywhere. The chance that someone did something random thats very uncommon (block back) and it happened to be a super effecti…
Everyone and their mother blocks back buttons. Major news sites do it. There is no way that's what's ranking them this high.
I am maintaining an SPA and the only thing I do is trying to not pollute history. But I'd never try to block the back button.
For all that Google search has been utterly crap for going on a decade now, I have to admit part of the reason is that they get targetted relentlessly by SEO spam operations like this. I like DuckDuckGo for now, but I imagine as they get bigger they're going to be a target for these kinds of spam just the same.
It seems DDG is worse at finding the more authoritative sites about a subject compared to Google.