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That's true, but on the other hand, I find myself steadily finding them anyway (many on HN). This site is obviously not for mass consumption by the general publ

That's true, but on the other hand, I find myself steadily finding them anyway (many on HN). This site is obviously not for mass consumption by the general public, so it's OK that it isn't highly ranked by Google. Google is for the average user. Sites like this are discovered by their target audience and spread largely by wires of mouth.

the_pwner224 6y ago
> This site is obviously not for mass consumption by the general public, so it's OK that it isn't highly ranked by Google. Google is for the average user. Sites like this are discovered by their target audience and spread largely by wires of mouth. You find some really good in-depth content for niche areas on these sort of sites (personal HTML websites, neocities.org, etc.). But if you forget the URL, it's usually very hard to find them again on Google even with using specific keywords. Too much SEO spam clogging up the results. I suspect not having Google Analytics scripts on the pages may also contribute. One that I can remember off the top of my head was a blog with a pink-ish background with content on making quills and ink from plants, among other stuff. One post specifically had an easy ink recipe that used walnuts iirc. Google will show you tons of big SEO'd Wordpress blogs with ads/affiliate links but not the old school genuine site. Another one was the blog of a day trader (a real one, not a guy trying to sell day trading courses). Impossible to find. site:wordpress.com helps filter out some of the SEO spam but I think it must have been hosted on a custom domain. It definitely looked like a standard Wordpress website when I read it a long time ago.