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Re:Why it's great to write blog posts by TheLastSamurai on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:40PM (#23070188)
That's where "content is king" and search engine basics come to rescue. If search engine does its job well, high quality content will always turn up before low quality ones. If a programming article turned up on page-1, then it shouldn't matter whether it was written by someone with or without knowledge gap?
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Re:Why it's great to write blog posts by papeda on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:55PM (#23073788)
> If search engine does its job well

This is the problem of blogspam. There are plenty of "popular" blogs that are good at SEO and produce little to no good content.

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Re:Why it's great to write blog posts by mkl on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:06PM (#23073904)
Search engines have no idea whether an article is right, wrong, or irrelevant. In practice, they often do not and cannot do their job well.
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