A glitch in the SEO matrix

Post by voussoir » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 12:43 AM UTC

twelve40 wrote: post #139

superasn wrote: post #21

It's so weird that Google still hasn't created the ability to block spam domains. I don't think it's a technical difficulty but rather a management decision to allow spam as long as they have their adsense ads and it baffles me they just don't care about their end users at all. I think being a monopoly with most competitors lagging a lap behind can make you this way, but with chatgpt catching up quick, Google better…

> It's so weird that Google still hasn't created the ability to block spam domains by who??? Google itself "blocks" or downgrades spam websites all the time. If they open it up to "the people", the same SEO crowd will rush in with scrapers to decimate competition, including any legit websites. So strange to see people jumping into conspiracy theories here without thinking of the consequences for a second.

Post by drdaeman » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 12:49 AM UTC

jklinger410 wrote: post #74

samwillis wrote: post #50

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From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone. Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own prof…

> Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead And then > Google's visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. Ah, so they have all of the information and yet their ad products don't work. They don't know this?

Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:06 AM UTC

Post by tomcam » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:18 AM UTC

divbzero wrote: post #29

OP will soon be ranking for the exact phrase he discusses. (If we discuss “a comprehensive ecosystem of open-source software for big data management” enough, perhaps we can get this thread to rank too.)

Post by gipp » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:35 AM UTC

superasn wrote: post #51

samwillis wrote: post #31

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Most of these spam content farms are covered with ads supplied by Google. The incentive isn't necessarily there to remove them. On top of that the worse the search results, the more likely the user will click an ad rather than an organic result. The Google of old wouldn't have been tempted by that incentive, but that Google is long dead. Bad search result = more revenue from ads. Obviously it's a fine balance, they d…

This is such short term thinking imo but then what do i know. People who are paid millions of dollars are making these decisions at Google so maybe that's how the game is played. I still think treating your customers like the way they're doing it now eventually never always works out.