The internet is an SEO landfill

Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by phkahler on Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:52PM (#20257842)

Grep the internet and sort by pagerank was great. Then everyone removed links that went offsite. Then link farms. The fake blogs and influencers are the evolution of link farms. Unfortunately sellers will game the system. How do we create a way for buyers to game it?

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by inimino on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:08PM (#20258353)

Pagerank was great when it was new because it had never been used before. Once Google got popular enough to be worth gaming, it became an example of Goodhart's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by tarsinge on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:49PM (#20258248)

Maybe it’s time to bring back curated web directories like the original Yahoo?

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by marvin-83 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:55PM (#20258590)

Yeah, I think so.

Curation-as-a-service could even become a viable market. It's arguably already happening to a certain extent through various platforms, creators, and aggregators; but it's not really split off as its own service yet.

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by mokanfar on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:20PM (#20258410)

Pagerank could be gamed too. Buy expired domain with high pagerank, establish a forwarder to your domain and your domain inherited the pagerank.

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by marvin-83 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:30PM (#20258471)

I thought that lapsed domains got their pagerank reset (or significantly reduced). Is that not the case?

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