Re:New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
by throwaway2048 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:37PM
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Its a worthwhile goal if you intend to make money, rather than donating free information to Google.
Re:New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
by cxr on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:14PM
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You've just succumbed to the X/Y problem. If you "intend to make money", then that is your goal—not the measure of your traffic, and not your ability to stick it the man or whomever you consider to be your competitor. The parent commenter is right; there is no intrinsic value in the measures that you keep invoking. The unrelenting focus on those auxiliary details—to the exclusion of the real goal—is the basis of Goodhart's law.
Making users visit your site to look up shipping status just to juice your traffic stats when you'd could provide it in a more convenient way is what everybody on this site would be calling a "dark pattern" if a big tech company did it. And just because you're small, doesn't make it any less annoying to your users.