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> There is little incentive for anyone to curate a list of 'best bikes under $500' for any reason other than this though? “Back in the olden days” people would
by prepend 5y ago
> There is little incentive for anyone to curate a list of 'best bikes under $500' for any reason other than this though?
“Back in the olden days” people would write pages because they loved the subject area and wanted to share knowledge/show off/start conversations.
So it was very common for people who were just really into bikes to spend some time sharing their thoughts on what the top 10 bikes under $500 were because they wanted to help people buy good bikes. There was no monetization, or at least direct monetization.
Those sites may still be around, but monetization has driven low-quality content higher up in SEO so the bike lover (who probably doesn’t care about SEO) doesn’t get content seen.
- ackbar03 5y ago>There was no monetization, or at least direct monetization Maybe they can try affiliate links! I think that was how the "crappy" sites used to do it in the old days. I never really understood the whole seo game and if anyone actually made money or just pretended to make money so they can sell courses
- prepend 5y agoI think some people like sharing knowledge. I keep a blog where I just write things that are interesting to me and maybe to others. I used to have affiliate links because I was playing around with stuff, but don’t think any have worked in 10+ years. I have no monetization plan or ever figure I’ll make money off the site. But it costs me nothing to run, so that’s ok. There are many sites like this, but they are much harder to find because Google isn’t able to differentiate meaningful content from the facade of meaningful content (ie, SEO). It’s like the degradation in academic papers where groups will reference each other like crazy to game rankings.