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Re:Thoughts on user growth and product by thomas on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:09AM (#24363183)
For me, the real growth question with Pinterest is how come they rank so well on Google? They dominate result for many image-related queries despite being a content aggregator. Everything on Pinterest inherently lives someplace else on the web, no? How come those aren’t what I’m seeing? The site seems to have become an SEO powerhouse despite - at least for me - never being the result I want.
Re:Thoughts on user growth and product by simonw on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:44AM (#24363453)
I believe Pinterest use machine learning to generate labels for images for SEO purposes, which I imagine has an enormous impact.
Re:Thoughts on user growth and product by xyzzy_plugh on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:58AM (#24363569)
Honestly I'm surprised they're not penalized by Google, given that pretty much any search result page does not contain any of the words in the search result snippet, in my experience.