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Yeah, and most of the reason for that can basically be summed up as "it's what Google incentivises". They look for detailed pages, so pages are bloated with ir

by CM30 2y ago

Yeah, and most of the reason for that can basically be summed up as "it's what Google incentivises". They look for detailed pages, so pages are bloated with irrelevant information. They look for pages people spend a lot of time on, so the same thing occurs. Plus, the hellscape that is modern advertising means that rushing content out quickly and cheaply is encouraged over anything else. AI will probably accelerate the process even more, but it's already been a huge issue for years now.

TeMPOraL 2y ago
There's a bit of blaming a victim going on here. Especially early on in the days of SEO, Google incentivized slop the same way a bank vault incentivized armed robbery: by having something of value in it. Google incentives don't matter much for honest website operators. They're only relevant when you want to abuse the system to promote your worthless bullshit[0] at the expense of the commons. I really wish society started to treat marketing hustlers with the same disdain it has for robbers. -- [0] - If it was worth anything, you wouldn't be worried about SEO all that much, especially back before it all turned into a race to the bottom.