I've removed all ad network code from my blog

Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog by bjterry on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:41PM (#13331684)

Many of my favorite websites from the old Internet were exactly this, and I think it's sort of a shame that I can no longer find sites like that with Google. For example, I once read a site about this person's journey for the perfect pizza dough. It was obviously a labor of love and he had tried tons of permutations and research into the topic. The site was very web 1.0, presumably doesn't have great SEO, but the guy had better, more in-depth information than anything in the first several pages of the Google search results.

ALL THE TIME when I'm researching topics, I'll think about how there is probably someone out there for whom it's their one true passion, and they have probably put up a little website on some corner of the Internet with more research and depth than 1000 well SEOd blog sites, but it's completely impossible to find.

Edit: I found the pizza website, it was halfway down the second page of google's search results. I only clicked it because it was the only one without a picture http://www.varasanos.com/pizzarecipe.htm

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Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog by cookiecaper on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:13PM (#13333365)

Massive amounts of content are locked away inside the walled gardens of social networks due to our antiquated network access and copyright laws. Most "small content" is being published on these networks instead of directly on the WWW these days.

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Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog by exergy on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:45PM (#13333747)

That website is adorable. I miss stuff like that, finding blogs on the front page of google, not buzzfeed. It reminds me of Rocket Roberts, who has a giant page on how he built a small observatory in his backyard for amateur astronomy and astrophotography:

http://www.rocketroberts.com/astro/observatory.htm

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Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog by gtirloni on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:29AM (#13334955)

StumbleUpon is a nice service to find content like that

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Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog by kristianc on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:59AM (#13336690)

> Edit: I found the pizza website, it was halfway down the second page of google's search results. I only clicked it because it was the only one without a picture http://www.varasanos.com/pizzarecipe.htm

You can argue that this article is a case of the system working fairly well at surfacing high quality content. When I searched for "New York Pizza Recipe" this result came half way down page one.

Sure, there are other "high domain authority" listings on that page too, but this is an example of Google listing a well researched, in depth original post from a little known site on the basis of the strength of its content, even with quite minimal on page SEO.

You can argue about whether that's the right term to be optimizing for, but it's the term the writer chose to optimize for as it's the title of the page.

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