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Tried all of these just now: Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics Justin Bieber Confident Lyric Justin Bieber Heartbreaker Lyrics Justin Bieber Memphis Lyrics
by selmnoo 13y ago
Tried all of these just now:
Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics
Justin Bieber Confident Lyric
Justin Bieber Heartbreaker Lyrics
Justin Bieber Memphis Lyrics
Justin Bieber One Life Lyrics
Justin Bieber All That Matters Lyrics
Justin Bieber Hold Tight Lyrics
Justin Bieber Pyd Lyrics
Justin Bieber Change Me Lyrics
Justin Bieber Recovery Lyrics
Justin Bieber Bad Day Lyrics
Justin Bieber Roller Coaster Lyrics
Justin Bieber Lyrics
All of these just yesterday were in fact ranked in the upper 5 (very often #1 actually). Rapgenius results are now not even in top 10.
Most surprisingly, even
Justin Bieber Heartbreaker rap genius
will not show up on Google results. Wow, that was a swift and harsh response. The only surefire way to get to a RG site is by doing "*bieber site:rapgenius.com".
They were using a wide array of questionable SERP optimizing techniques (http://www.rocketmill.co.uk/hideous-seo-strategy-rap-genius http://www.rocketmill.co.uk/hideous-seo-strategy-rap-genius among others). One described here is very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6958883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6958883. Apparently that's an old one, but it's first I'm hearing of it. From all of this, to their rape jokes and everything else in-between, you can't say they didn't have something like this coming.
- rapemaster 13y agoI liked their rape jokes. Grow a sense of humour.
- larksimian 13y agoQuite frankly not showing me rapgenius results when that's one of the search terms is idiotic. I guess now I have to remember to go straight to their site whenever I'm looking up lyrics. I'm glad I at least know about them and I feel bad for the people that are now going to be trapped in craplyrics.com hell. I understand and agree with google's desire to punish spammers but their effort should not have such a major impact on users who obviously know what they are looking for.
- weixiyen 13y agoJust wow. I think the intention was to make an example of Rap Genius for other companies. I honestly had no idea how severe these violations were until now.
- bushido 13y ago> I think the intention was to make an example of Rap Genius for other companies. Doubt they intended to penalize them quite this drastically. Its likely that they algorithm is just being overzealous some keywords being blacklisted. Quite similar to how the UK porn filters are filtering out Claire Perry, the most prominent campaigner for the filters[0]. > I honestly had no idea how severe these violations were until now The violations are pretty serious and have been for the better part of the last (half-)decade. RapGenius should have known better. For me the worst was when the pretty much said "But everyone else is doing it". Too bad this will obliterate them. Unintentionally though, going forward RapGenius will be the poster child for what happens to children on the naughty list. [0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/25/the-best-story-yet-about-the-uks-online-porn-filters/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/25/the-best-...
- elwell 13y agoI agree, they are clearly trying to make an example for others.
- x0054 13y agoJust use Bing for now :)
- w4 13y agoEven Googling just "rap genius" doesn't get me their site in the top 10 (just their Twitter).
- tlogan 13y agoNow, what about actually getting quality site when I search for "Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics"? The first page now is now just full of low quality lyric sites.
- selmnoo 13y agoWell, really, are they? I have Adblock, and really the sites I get from "Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics" are fine if I was just interested in the lyrics of that particular song.
- kshay 13y agoShouldn't "Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics" just show you all Justin Bieber lyrics?