Yelp, Wikipedia, and StackOverflow are highly SEO-dependent, but if they were removed from Google results I'd start visiting them directly. They're genuinely gr

Yelp, Wikipedia, and StackOverflow are highly SEO-dependent, but if they were removed from Google results I'd start visiting them directly. They're genuinely great products with real brands. I think that's the best test: how many people come to your site because they saw your domain in the search results and recognized it as likely being a good choice vs clicked the link randomly. If you only have completely random drive-by SEO traffic you probably have a shitty site and it will get bitchslapped every time Google improves its system.