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Yes, that's true. But "getting traffic" isn't really a worthwhile goal in itself, and seeing google as stealing your traffic just because they can provide info
by notatoad 6y ago
Yes, that's true. But "getting traffic" isn't really a worthwhile goal in itself, and seeing google as stealing your traffic just because they can provide information to users without a navigation hop is wrongheaded.
Making users visit your site to look up shipping status just to juice your traffic stats when you'd could provide it in a more convenient way is what everybody on this site would be calling a "dark pattern" if a big tech company did it. And just because you're small, doesn't make it any less annoying to your users.
- throwaway2048 6y agoIts a worthwhile goal if you intend to make money, rather than donating free information to Google.
- cxr 6y agoYou've just succumbed to the X/Y problem. If you "intend to make money", then that is your goal—not the measure of your traffic, and not your ability to stick it the man or whomever you consider to be your competitor. The parent commenter is right; there is no intrinsic value in the measures that you keep invoking. The unrelenting focus on those auxiliary details—to the exclusion of the real goal—is the basis of Goodhart's law.
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