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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by wolco on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:04AM (#22800265)
Plain and simple, Google won't rank you without it. Google looks for additional filler when ranking. Otherwise you would see different kinds of sites.
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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by DeathArrow on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:51AM (#22800640)
Then we have to blame Google, not the authors.
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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by jrochkind1 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:53PM (#22809615)
Right, but is there any explanation for why a recipe page with several pages of filler content ranks better on Google though?

I assume (?) it is not google engineers tuning for this particular outcome on purpose...

Not all that plain and simple.

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