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>Why are "garbage" tutorials getting high rankings in search engines? Because John experiments with X for the first time and writes about it on his blog. Janet
by akerro 8y ago
>Why are "garbage" tutorials getting high rankings in search engines?
Because John experiments with X for the first time and writes about it on his blog. Janette has the same problem while learning about X so she takes his code, makes a few changes and puts it on her blog. This scenario happens 8 more times and we have 10 low quality tutorials about how to do things, but none of the authors has experience and expertise in X, and they won't admit it. Bad practice is copied to many places. 1000 garbage kill 1 gold.
- TuringTest 8y agoThis explains why 1000 garbage tutorials are created, not why they are ranked high in the search engine.
- coldtea 8y agoThe same exact mechanism (and the parent already alluded to it in his comment: "Janette has the same problem while learning about X so she takes his code, makes a few changes and puts it on her blog"). Non experts look for tutorials, They chance upon tutorials by non-experts They don't know enough to tell they're junk They use the code, link to, and suggest those tutorials to others Those tutorials are getting higher ranks, attracting even more non-experts
- akerro 8y agoBecause search engines don't rank quality of source code and tutorial, they rank page layout, bolds, italics, font color and page speed. Literally any garbage can get to top3, you dont need to be good Ruby tutorial writer for it.
- nerdponx 8y agoand they won't admit it. There's your problem. If you are writing a "here's how I did it" post, you should be clear that you don't have any idea what you're doing.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThat doesn't address the indexing problem.