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https://www.google.com/search?q=my+best+SEO+tactic+so+far&oq=my+best+SEO+tactic+so+far https://www.google.com/search?q=my+best+SEO+tactic+so+far&oq... Looks li

• pmiller2 6y ago
  Yep! It is interesting though that the top 3 results for this totally not specially crafted /s query are the article (expected), this comments page (fairly expected), and then an outdated 5 year old article (not so expected). I wonder if the overall quality of Google search would improve significantly if, for some topics where timeliness is important, they ranked things more heavily by date, emphasizing recent results. This would probably have a decent impact on some technical searches, but I wonder how wide the applicability would be.
  • graeme 6y ago
    Google actually does heavily index by date. It has caused a lot of problems for trying to find good older stuff in evergreen niches. The issue with this search is no one would normally search for “my best seo tactic”
    • dhosek 6y ago
      Good point. "best seo tactic" doesn't show any of this on the front page (and there's a half page of ads before you see any real content).