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Your experience matches mine. Spend two or three weeks blacklisting sites as you hit them and they disappear. Some people argue that Google possibly can't win
by rightbyte 3y ago
Your experience matches mine. Spend two or three weeks blacklisting sites as you hit them and they disappear.
Some people argue that Google possibly can't win the fight vs spam sites, but obviously it works perfectly fine manually blacklisting them.
It takes time to build ranking.
The underlying reason is probably that the spam sites use Google Ads (revenue which is tied to 1000s of PMs and managers bonuses) and that Google as an org is deeply dysfunctional at this point.
- ncruces 3y agoYeah, but then they're editorializing. And not in a generic “this kind of content is bad for our users” but very specifically “site x.com is bad for our users.”
- tivert 3y ago>> Some people argue that Google possibly can't win the fight vs spam sites, but obviously it works perfectly fine manually blacklisting them. > Yeah, but then they're editorializing. > And not in a generic “this kind of content is bad for our users” but very specifically “site x.com is bad for our users.” Except that shouldn't be a problem because I'm pretty sure Google already blacklists domains.
- ncruces 3y agoSurely, they do. But they reserve that for stuff that's really way beyond the line. For everything that might be legitimate they leave it to the ranking algorithm to sort out and it's a game of cat and mouse.