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And the more this happens, the worse the search results will get because measuring popularity of a link and time spent on a website needs to be measured for ran
by Terry_Roll 5y ago
And the more this happens, the worse the search results will get because measuring popularity of a link and time spent on a website needs to be measured for ranking purposes, next time someone used the same search term.
- bsagdiyev 5y agoGoogle search seemed to work fine before that stuff was tracked.
- qwytw 5y agoThat's because way less people were trying to game it.
- floatingatoll 5y agoAnd because websites used to link to other websites for non-profitable reasons (blogs, directories, and webrings).
- ohgodplsno 5y ago*according to Google. I spend 5 minutes on american recipe websites to scroll through the SEO bullshit before finding the actual recipe, but that doesn't mean it's useful. So, no, it's just Google telling you to let them collect analytics on every aspect of your life for "search improvement purposes".
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoalso the worse the search results will get if someone put a bunch of ads in before the search results for people to click on instead of the search results.