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Excellent. They deserved some coal in their stockings. >If you go to Google and search for [rap genius], rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page Tha
by jere 13y ago
Excellent. They deserved some coal in their stockings.
>If you go to Google and search for [rap genius], rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page
That's pretty crazy. Whenever I put up an obscure site, I notice ranking on the domain happens almost immediately with no effort.
[edit] Holy shit, I didn't realize quite how awful this is. Very often, I search for "<song name> rapgenius" because I really enjoy the annotations; that's not even on the first page of results. Making it worse, the first page (even when searching for a song) contains stories about them making rape jokes and spamming. https://www.google.com/search?q=today+was+a+good+day+rapgenius https://www.google.com/search?q=today+was+a+good+day+rapgeni...
- kintamanimatt 13y ago5th page for "rapgenius" There are two lessons here: (1) don't do shady shit, (2) Google should only be one of many sources of traffic.
- girvo 13y agoFor lyrics sites, Google is the alpha and the omega. There are no other traffic sources for that niche.
- bushido 13y agoWow! Just checked and they ranked 59th for "rap genius" and 51st for "rapgenius" on google.
- anatoly 13y ago"<song name> site:rapgenius.com" should help.
- adventured 13y agoThe penalty that has been applied will degrade heavily with time. Rap Genius will have an opportunity to rebuild their ranking in the coming months. I suspect they'll be fine, as the product is solid; so clean-up in aisle three, and then business as usual. They're also very well capitalized to withstand this.
- thatthatis 13y ago12/25/2013 And the greatest gift of all was to be schadenfreude. For people who act like arrogant jerks were punished severely that day.