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Any ideas _why_ it lost so much traffic exactly?

by Quarrelsome 7y ago

analogmemory 7y ago
Daily Mail is the sort of “paper” you use to line a bird cage with
- Quarrelsome 7y ago
  oh sure, I know cause I used to deliver it as a paper boy, got a good grounding but that doesn't explain why it dropped in Google rank.
  - spookthesunset 7y ago
    It got dropped in rank because Google decided something else should be higher ranked. How do you propose google rank things? Don't forget people will always game whatever your ranking algorithm, so please elaborate how you'll deal with that too.
okket 7y ago
Because they perfected the exploitation of Googles search algorithm? Have a look at the site. It is literally a clickbait content farm.
ptah 7y ago
it's a pearl-clutching misogynistic and *phobic tabloid. wikipedia doesn't allow citations from them either https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia... https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-daily-mail/ https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-d...
- dev_dull 7y ago
  Alright sounds good. By the way where do we go to find out whether a publication is misogynistic and *phobic? We need to make sure we keep the internet safe!
  - hedora 7y ago
    This is one of the more reputable catalogs of hate groups, including internet publications: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou... They’ve been around much longer than the internet, fwiw.
    - kantos2 7y ago
      But now SPLC is a joke. 0 credibility.
    - StanislavPetrov 7y ago
      You're kidding, right? SPLC is a virtue signal cesspool run by con men that has been forced to retract multiple smears in the last year alone, including smearing many "left leaning" journalists as Russian spies and fascists. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multip...
  - ptah 7y ago
    https://stopfundinghate.info/ https://stopfundinghate.info/ is UK based and focuses on UK tabloids that use xenophobic exaggerations to increase sales
    - kantos2 7y ago
      Facists, who take away people way to support themsels by own work. stopfundinghate is cancer
ChrisRR 7y ago
Looks like the site drops in the rankings because it's not mobile friendly https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7515257 https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7...
AJ007 7y ago
Their articles are full of mistakes. It isn't uncommon for the labels under the photos to ID the incorrect people. I wonder how much of the writing was original and how much was re-writes of previous articles or other publisher's articles.

Any ideas _why_ it lost so much traffic exactly?

analogmemory 7y ago

Daily Mail is the sort of “paper” you use to line a bird cage with

Quarrelsome 7y ago
oh sure, I know cause I used to deliver it as a paper boy, got a good grounding but that doesn't explain why it dropped in Google rank.
- spookthesunset 7y ago
  It got dropped in rank because Google decided something else should be higher ranked. How do you propose google rank things? Don't forget people will always game whatever your ranking algorithm, so please elaborate how you'll deal with that too.

okket 7y ago

Because they perfected the exploitation of Googles search algorithm? Have a look at the site. It is literally a clickbait content farm.

ptah 7y ago

it's a pearl-clutching misogynistic and *phobic tabloid. wikipedia doesn't allow citations from them either https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia... https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-daily-mail/ https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-d...

dev_dull 7y ago
Alright sounds good. By the way where do we go to find out whether a publication is misogynistic and *phobic? We need to make sure we keep the internet safe!
- hedora 7y ago
  This is one of the more reputable catalogs of hate groups, including internet publications: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou... They’ve been around much longer than the internet, fwiw.
  - kantos2 7y ago
    But now SPLC is a joke. 0 credibility.
  - StanislavPetrov 7y ago
    You're kidding, right? SPLC is a virtue signal cesspool run by con men that has been forced to retract multiple smears in the last year alone, including smearing many "left leaning" journalists as Russian spies and fascists. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multip...
- ptah 7y ago
  https://stopfundinghate.info/ https://stopfundinghate.info/ is UK based and focuses on UK tabloids that use xenophobic exaggerations to increase sales
  - kantos2 7y ago
    Facists, who take away people way to support themsels by own work. stopfundinghate is cancer

ChrisRR 7y ago

Looks like the site drops in the rankings because it's not mobile friendly https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7515257 https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7...

AJ007 7y ago

Their articles are full of mistakes. It isn't uncommon for the labels under the photos to ID the incorrect people. I wonder how much of the writing was original and how much was re-writes of previous articles or other publisher's articles.