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Shameless rebuttal: it's 2016...isn't it about time people stopped polluting the Internet with content written for search engines?!
by davemel37 11y ago
Shameless rebuttal: it's 2016...isn't it about time people stopped polluting the Internet with content written for search engines?!
- obstacle1 11y agoThis isn't a "rebuttal" of anything. It is just an expression of your distaste for SEO.
- davemel37 11y agoI do SEO for a living! No distaste here for anything other than spam and decades old strategies that are a net negative for the world and the SERPs
- techdragon 11y agoI literally cannot agree with you more. I've noticed that the bulk of my "searching behaviour" of about the last 2 years, has been a constantly increasing level of "aggressive specificity" to fend off the SEO spam. Multiple quoted segments, parentheses, OR keywords, the insanity that is the "required term flag", all used with increasing frequency to get decent results out of an increasingly irrelevant pile of garbage that I get when I perform basic "simple searches" for facts, references and other topic related information while working. Don't get me started on the disgusting amount of stack overflow close sites I see frequently rated higher than SO itself due to content spam tactics, keyword stuffing and other grey hat SEO methods to make the sites more "appealing" in technical topic search results.
- davemel37 11y ago5 years ago we could easily differentiate between thin content(I.E. MAHALO) and quality content...but now there is so much "not quite spam, but overly redundant" content, regurgitated listicles and other keyword targeted content spawned by content writers instead of subject matter experts that I can't seem to find the really good content from search anymore. Carefully Curated content is how I find the good information. Search used to be a convenience, now it adds layers of complexity to my search needs.