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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by RobertoG on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:16PM (#22794958)
I just searched (1) "SEO ruined content" in duck duck go and this Hacker news page is the first entry.

We are very lucky that, as far as we know, an accumulation of irony doesn't create black holes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SEO+ruined+content&t=canonical&ia=...

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by warent on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:37PM (#22799007)
HA! People collect significant paychecks for what you just did. I love this so much.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by hombre_fatal on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:19PM (#22798448)
Currently page 2 on Google.

To be fair, "SEO ruined content" is a pretty specific search string and doesn't even show up in the results that out-rank this submission. This comment specifically talks about "SEO ruined content" and is, correctly, a good results candidate.

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by bolasanibk on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:45PM (#22799657)
>Currently page 2 on Google.

And now on first page

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by abakker on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:46PM (#22799918)
5th result.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by oldtapwater on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:52AM (#22802690)
It's the first one for me now.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by arushisomani on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:53PM (#22806255)
Likewise.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by seobuddy on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:43AM (#22833495)
Very specific indeed, no data on Ahrefs for this keyword.

Keyword Difficulty < 15

Ahrefs estimate that you’ll need backlinks from ~17 websites to rank in top 10 for this keyword

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by kaixi on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:20PM (#22805277)
First result on Google now. Well done!
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by mcv on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:12AM (#22803353)
Even above the article that we're discussing. Hilarious. And a very good demonstration of the problem.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by ksolanki on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:38PM (#22809815)
Ok, now that we agree this is neat (I am impressed!), what’s the solution?

Google or not, what can help me discover the right recipe, the right content, the right answer to my coding error?

Search algorithms that keep “mutating” even randomly? Ranking system? What?

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by mcv on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:54AM (#22811765)
I fear it's incredibly hard to fight fake content with automated systems. You need the ability to understand the content to determine whether the content is actually meaningful. For that, you need far better intelligence than just some fancy text processing.

You need people, basically. If you want to automate it, you need some way to figure out what people think about that content. This has been tried by counting how many people link to it, or rate it highly, but those methods have also been gamed to death.

Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by humanbeinc on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#22795185)
Awesome.
Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by gauravjain13 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:01AM (#22801540)
Neat!