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This explains why 1000 garbage tutorials are created, not why they are ranked high in the search engine.
by TuringTest 8y ago
This 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.