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Your recommendations are not magically a description of how your algorithm actually behaves. And when they contradict, people are going to follow the algorithm
by Jiro 3y ago
Your recommendations are not magically a description of how your algorithm actually behaves. And when they contradict, people are going to follow the algorithm, not the recommendation.
- darklycan51 3y agoExactly this, not any different than how they behave with youtube, it seems deceptive at best
- mangodrunk 3y agoYeah, Google’s statement seems obviously wrong. They say they don’t tell people to delete old content, but then they say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking and also what content gets indexed.
- dannysullivan 3y ago"They say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking" -- We didn't say this. We said the exact opposite.
- mangodrunk 3y agoSorry if I’m misconstruing what was said, but then it seems that what was said isn’t consistent with what actually happens.