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The answer is that the content farms are doing a better job of interacting with Google algorithm than SO. Of course it is a problem with Google search, but sear
by coliveira 3y ago
The answer is that the content farms are doing a better job of interacting with Google algorithm than SO. Of course it is a problem with Google search, but search was always hackable. The made-for-google sites know very well how to play the game.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder if Google should make their SEO prevention worse but simpler. Everyone has always wanted to SEO for Google, as long as Google has been around. It has seemed like only recently that good sites predictably lose. Perhaps 10 years ago Stack Overflow was able to do some minimal SEO and then get by on content strength. Perhaps nowadays Google is doing a good job preventing basic stuff from working, so the only people to get good results are SEO-ologists that only know about exploiting SEO, and have nothing interesting to say on any other topic.
- coliveira 3y agoI think the answer is simpler. To rank well on Google you need to integrate with Google (search console, analytics and similar). I guess SO is not giving all their data to Google, so they cannot "optimize" for the site in the way that content farms are willing to.