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> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years, so the fact that it's crawled your site doesn't m
by sph 3y ago
> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years, so the fact that it's crawled your site doesn't mean it's necessarily searchable either.
I've noticed this as well. I have a crappy website for my app I need to do better marketing for (not my priority just now), but I've noticed that, for however crap it is, I have received ZERO incoming hits from Google, apart from a couple people that have literally just googled my domain name.
I do not believe for a second there's not a single query done in the 2 months the page has been up, globally, for which my website wasn't a bit relevant. Either that, or the spam problem Google has is much bigger than anyone thinks.
Yet another data point in favour of the Dead Internet theory.
- gilleain 3y agoYou could try the google search console - it gives you a view on what hits/clicks have come in over time. edit: Hah. I notice it suggests using it at the top of the page if you use 'site:..." - and I only get 5 results for my site when the console claims to have indexed 10 times that many! edit2: Also duckduckgo returns more like 15 hits ...
- soared 3y agoSilly to see people complaining about search results and indexing without backing those claims with data from search console. It’s like devs turn off their brains when it comes to marketing because they don’t like it.
- sph 3y agoGoogle's bloody Search Console says I got 16 impressions in 2 months for literal searches of my domain name, and nothing else. Funny seeing people thinking I got those figures by reading tea leaves. Who's the silly one now?
- rideontime 3y agoDead Internet theory?
- b800h 3y agoFrom Wikipedia: "The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content, marginalizing human activity. The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017." Not sure I'd call it a conspiracy theory.
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- gspencley 3y ago> Not sure I'd call it a conspiracy theory. What I find funny about that framing is that, regardless of whether or not the theory has merit, a conspiracy theory by definition asserts that there exists two or more people conspiring with the intent to produce the alleged outcome. From what I understand, dead Internet theory alleges no such collusion or intent. I could be wrong but I believe that it merely suggests that the amount of bot-generated activity has come to dwarf human generated content to the point where the Internet is effectively "dead" from the perspective of its original purpose: humans sharing human knowledge.
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- PaulHoule 3y ago10 or so years ago I wound up blocking everyone other than Google in my robots.txt because I was sick and tired of webcrawlers from China crawling my site twice a day and never sending me a single referrer. Same with Bing. Back when I was involved with SEO the joke was you could rank #1 for Viagra on Bing and get three hits a month.
- tankerkiller 3y ago
- wahnfrieden 3y agouse intext:
- PaulHoule 3y agoI have all sorts of things that I wrote years ago and I can never find them searching by title unless I put the specific name of the site in the query. I sure can find the slideshare though where some guy from Oracle stole not only my title but much of the content from my blog.
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoSame issue for me. Message is clear: be relevant to be indexed. And everything indexed is relevant.