Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

  • jan teli
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    711 months ago

    Yeah it’s madness

    • offendicula
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      811 months ago

      It’s not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It’s on the Verge alright… verge of unreadability 🙄

      • jan teli
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        711 months ago

        Works fine for me 🤷🏻‍♂️ (firefox on android w/ some extensions). Defs went a bit heavy on the css tho

          • jan teli
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            111 months ago

            That’s a mighty fine username you’ve got there, btw