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I try to avoid it because it looks like garbage. Even though the content is good, I feel the site is not authoritative because it looks like some guy's geocitie
by iopq 12y ago
I try to avoid it because it looks like garbage. Even though the content is good, I feel the site is not authoritative because it looks like some guy's geocities page.
- julian_t 12y agoI agree that the design is a bit old-fashioned, but to me sites are about the content, so as long as I can get the information I want without getting a migraine, I'll ignore it. Authoritative comes from content, not looks. In fact, to me MeFi and HN are about the same, design-wise...
- iopq 12y agoHacker news has a sane color scheme. Ask Metafilter has barf yellow on swamp green.
- rhizome 12y agoSorry to be so blunt, but that's pretty snobby and I would be seriously concerned if Google actually used that criteria.
- iopq 12y agoPeople click on the search result... and hit the back button right as they see the color scheme. This ruins the Google ranking of the site.
- odiv 12y agoAnd people just started doing this mid-November 2012? Or Google only really started taking it into account then? A lot of people have been giving earnest, authoritative sounding SEO advice, but I don't think anyone really knows except Google.
- rhizome 12y agoRight. Meanwhile, gmane and nabble float to the top of the SERPs. Give me a break.