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A glitch in the SEO matrix

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Re: A glitch in the SEO matrix

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The root cause of all this madness: Ads. As long as there is even a marginal financial incentive to get human eyeballs on websites (as opposed to the viewers actually playing for services or, you know, just hosting websites for free because they are cool), this will keep getting worse. A genuine desire to help incoming traffic doesn't really matter either. Anything helpful will be infinitely cloned, as long as there…

Education is the path out of this: advertised products are ALWAYS worse value. You are overpaying to fund convincing the next sucker. The market is pretty efficient, and there are always alternatives. If you aren't lazy, you can save a huge amount of money by not buying advertised products. On the rare occasions I see an ad for something cool that I want, I search for it on aliexpress and 90% of the time find it for…

How do you get eye balls to educate?

Re: A glitch in the SEO matrix

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post #27

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> It was removed because it was being gamed from the outset. 'Gamed' as in people would block the most ad-infested pages which just so happened to be the ones which made Google the most money?

No, 'gamed' as in mass blocking one's competitor's results. If you think ads are bad you should take a peep into the world of 'negative seo'. I can assure you that any solution you can think of that will improve web search will be used in the exact opposite way you imagine.

Was that feature not akin to the report button

Re: A glitch in the SEO matrix

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post #62

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Your bio welcomes strangers to chat, but, no method of contact! =] How can I get in touch?

Sorry just added. Feel free to reach out.

It's been a couple of weeks, and I unfortunately still have no desire to engage with Twitter, ha.. — can you forgive this, is requesting an email a dealbreaker?
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