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I disagree with your first point but agree with your second. Google obsoleted most webrings/directories because page rank was a better way of calculating a webs
by ipsum2 7y ago
I disagree with your first point but agree with your second. Google obsoleted most webrings/directories because page rank was a better way of calculating a websites popularity. Then, websites figured out how to game page rank, and its been a gradual decline ever since.
- skywhopper 7y agoThe point is that the web rings and directories were an important source of good PageRank input. By killing them off, Google basically clearcut all their resources and did nothing to replant, and now the web is becoming a desert where nothing can grow.
- eitland 7y agoHN keeps mentioning dark SEO and companies gaming the ranking. That might explain a lot but I don't think so. Just look to how they are messing up simple searches because of basic lack of quality controls: - Why doesn't doublequotes work anymore? Not because dark SEO vut because nobody cares. - Same goes for the verbatim option. - The last Android phone I liked was the Samsung SII, and last year I finally gave up and got the cheapest new iPhone I could get, an XR. My iPhone XR reliably does something my S3, S4, S7 Edge and at least one Samsung Note couldn't do: it just work as expected without unreasonable delays. - Ads. They seem to be optimized to fleece advertisers for pay-per-views because a good number of the ads I've seen are ridiculous, especially given that I had reported those ads a number of times. I guess what certain customers that probably paid a lot for those impressions would say if they knew that I had specifically tried to opt out from those ads and weren't in the target group anyway.