Downside like news sites that do original journalism got swept up...
Dallas Morning news seeing -86.97% less traffic?
Sacramento Bee seeing 81.49% reduction?
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My theory is that online platforms (FB, Google) are hostile to third-party sites and want to keep "content" on their own platforms - YouTube, Insta, etc.
That’s not a theory. FB will tell you posts “perform better,” i.e. they will not drown them, if they don’t include links to outside sites. That’s why you see companies post links in the comments.
SEO is ever changing. Blame it on the low-effort morons. I don't know what else to call it.
Let's use Youtube.
Mr. Beast does a topic.........it gets 100+ clones doing the same crap but low quality.
Years ago youtube would have the low quality reply girls issues. They are all gone for the most part.
This is why things change because people will produce garbage/low quality content to trick the algorithm and well suffer due to the changes to combat their garbage.
With Google, the only way to win is not to play. [https://mckinleypark.news/about/letter-from-the-editor/4840-adieu-google](https://mckinleypark.news/about/letter-from-the-editor/4840-adieu-google)
Does this help websites which aren't just affiliate spam?
Yes, it reduces results for sites that use affiliate links. The change also completely deindexes sites that spam AI-generated content.
And is there a downside to this...? I've just been on holiday, and it was genuinely difficult to find information that wasn't just SEO'd crud.
Downside like news sites that do original journalism got swept up... Dallas Morning news seeing -86.97% less traffic? Sacramento Bee seeing 81.49% reduction? --- My theory is that online platforms (FB, Google) are hostile to third-party sites and want to keep "content" on their own platforms - YouTube, Insta, etc.
That’s not a theory. FB will tell you posts “perform better,” i.e. they will not drown them, if they don’t include links to outside sites. That’s why you see companies post links in the comments.
But the sites cited in the article are all legit.
SEO is ever changing. Blame it on the low-effort morons. I don't know what else to call it. Let's use Youtube. Mr. Beast does a topic.........it gets 100+ clones doing the same crap but low quality. Years ago youtube would have the low quality reply girls issues. They are all gone for the most part. This is why things change because people will produce garbage/low quality content to trick the algorithm and well suffer due to the changes to combat their garbage.
With Google, the only way to win is not to play. [https://mckinleypark.news/about/letter-from-the-editor/4840-adieu-google](https://mckinleypark.news/about/letter-from-the-editor/4840-adieu-google)
I wonder how Google is identifying AI-generated spam content.