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And yelp! Search for "generic food item" and yelp will come up with these auto-generated lists refreshed monthly to catch the attention of the google crawler.
by cowmoo728 7y ago
And yelp! Search for "generic food item" and yelp will come up with these auto-generated lists refreshed monthly to catch the attention of the google crawler.
1. top 10 X near you August 2019
2. top 10 X near you July 2019
3. top 10 X near you June 2019
etc.
They're just taking the top 10 reviewed places on yelp that may or may not serve that food item and then publishing these monthly "posts" to be indexed. If I wanted to look on yelp I would search yelp!
- jjeaff 7y agoI know. It's so frustrating. And it can't be that effective. I mean how many people actually live in an area where "Top 10 Cambodian Restaurants Near You" isn't nonsensical? Which is what I see anytime I am trying to lookup ideas for some niche restaurant genre.
- lokedhs 7y agoI decided to try to search for “Sushi” on both Google and DDG. Top results on Google: Sushi in Singapore (thehoneycombers.net) 9 BEST Places To Get Affordable Sushi In Singapore UNDER ... (thefinder.com.sg) Sushi (wikipedia.org) Best Sushi in Singapore, 2019 (burpple.com) The 11 Best Affordable Sushi Bars in Singapore (timeout.com) The Best Singapore Sushi (tripadvisor.com.sg) On DDG: Sakae (sakaesushi.com.sg) Sushi (wikipedia.org) Sushi Tei (sushitei.com) Umisushi (umisushi.com.sg) Sushi (japan-guide.com) Sushi Recipes (sushirecipies.org) The Different Kinds of Sushi (delishably.com) Google displays the spammy list articles you mentioned, while DDG generally lists Sushi chains. I think I prefer the DDG results, but I guess that depends on the quality of the list links that Google provided. I guess the differences can be explained by Google being much more targeted by SEO tricks.