CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by whyenot on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:42PM (#37070369)

I'm not sure it is so cut and dried. Who is more likely to give you accurate information on how to game Google's ranking: Google themselves, or an SEO firm. I suspect that Google has far less incentive to provide good information on this than an SEO firm would.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by devoutsalsa on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:01PM (#37070502)

Google will give you advice on how to not be penalized by Google. They won’t give you advice on how to game the system in your favor.

The more Google helps you get ahead, the more you end up dominating the search results. The more you dominate the results, the more people will start thinking to come straight to you. The more people come straight to you, the more people never use Google. The less people use Google, the less revenue Google generates.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by water-your-self on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:52PM (#37070945)

Search heremetically provides a very small amount of profits. Google makes most of its money on the websites it surfaces via ads.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by pmontra on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @10:02PM (#37071026)

> The more you dominate the results, the more people will start thinking to come straight to you.

This is a possible outcome but there are people that type in google.com and then the name of their preferred news site, their bank, etc, every day.

The site with the name they search dominates that search but they keep searching it.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by bombcar on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:22PM (#37071545)

I would like to know what dollar amount Google makes on people typing things like “Amazon” into google search and then clicking the first paid result to Amazon.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by iamflimflam1 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:26AM (#37071935)

It’s the same on YouTube - the majority of the people who work there seem to have no idea how “the algorithm” actually works - yet they still produce all sorts of “advice” on how to make better videos.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by rightbyte on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:12AM (#37073770)

I got this feeling the YT algorithm is sticky and like "chooses" who to promote in some self reinforcing loop.

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