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Being manipulated by "SEO hacking" tactics IS a Google problem (or search engine problem) to solve. Even as far back as the 90s many sites were putting "invisi
by 22c 5y ago
Being manipulated by "SEO hacking" tactics IS a Google problem (or search engine problem) to solve.
Even as far back as the 90s many sites were putting "invisible" paragraphs in their pages to boost site ranking with often completely irrelevant keywords to what was actually on the page.
The early search engines that made it were the ones who put in the engineering effort to filter these kinds of tactics out. Google is just resting on their laurels as top dog in the search space and has been for a very long time.
- dredmorbius 5y agoActively engaging in that manipulation refutes the message that the problem is strictly Google's. But I'm repeating myself. Disengenuous argument is disengenuous.
- godDLL 5y agoSo, all one needs to do to rise up in Google results is the kind of thing Pinterest is doing, you're saying? Meaning what they are doing works? And has been for years, surviving algo changes by Google? Would that not be a first?
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe question we're discussing is whether or not Pinterest's claim that this is all Google's fault is credible. If you'd like to have a different discussion, you'll be wanting to have that with someone else. Yes, Google have a problem. At best, Pinterest exploited it. At worst, they actively worked with Google for some presumptive mutual benefit, screwing over the rest of the Web community. Either way, Pinterest are culpable.
- godDLL 5y agoWho exactly, and how much accountable would you hold? At pinterest.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIrrelevant question. The proper response is to cut Pinterest out of search results.
- godDLL 5y agoYou did answer then. Everyone, and their immediate family. That's quite communist, don't you find?