Interesting quote from Brad Enslen about Google's possible role in this: > Search engines in general but Google in particular: they have warped the way we buil

Interesting quote from Brad Enslen about Google's possible role in this: > Search engines in general but Google in particular: they have warped the way we build websites, many websites used to have a splash or landing page first: “You have reached the Gates of Marlborodor” (complete with MIDI music) and a big Enter button. Search engines decided they didn’t like that so word spread to get rid of them. Rumors spread that large link pages (for surfing) might be considered “link farms” (and yes on SEO sites they were but these things eventually trickle down to little personal site webmasters too) so these started to be phased out. Then the worry was Blogrolls might be considered link farms so they slowly started to be phased out. Then the biggie: when Google deliberately filtered out all the free hosted sites from the SERP’s (they were not removed completely just sent back to page 10 or so of the Google SERP’s) and traffic to Tripod and Geocities plummeted. Why? Because they were taking up space in the first 20 organic returns knocking out corporate and commercial sites and the sites likely to become paying customers were complaining. Comment is from here: https://www.kickscondor.com/when-the-social-silos-fall/#comments https://www.kickscondor.com/when-the-social-silos-fall/#comm... Blogrolls are returning here and there. Here's one I saw recently: https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2019/06/04/blogroll/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2019/06/04/blogroll/