Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters

Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by rydre on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#23942739)

Until they regress because of SEO people trying to game the system.

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Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by SpicyLemonZest on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:46PM (#23943118)

There are already plenty of newsletters that consist of basically SEO spam. I don't think that's a problem, as long as I can identify and sign up for the good ones.

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Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by dgellow on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:03PM (#23944415)

Wouldn’t people just unsubscribe?

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Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by jjohansson on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:23PM (#23942863)

I’m an SEO person, and true SEO is about providing value and helping the searcher. Not about gaming it. Google does a great job at removing the black hats, and a pretty good job at removing the grey hats, but it’s not perfect.

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Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by rydre on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:45PM (#23943116)

If google was really good at removing then Pinterest and Quora would have been downranked/removed from the index.

And then there is this spam site called AnalyticsVidhya whenever I search for stuff related to machine learning.

Gaming SEO still works, so I have to maintain my own blocklist of websites that automatically hides the biggest offenders from my results.

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Re:Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters by jjohansson on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:39PM (#23945922)

Undoubtedly true. Doesn’t change the fact that true SEO is about helping the searcher resolve their query. Google is evil, but they have the best search algorithm in town.

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