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Re:On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer by 3rd3 on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:04PM (#7786526)
I remember a few years ago when I didn’t know MetaFiler, I often left MetaFilter pretty quickly when it showed up in search results because it looks like one of these spammy link aggregator websites. (I had the same initial hurdle with StackOverflow because I thought it was similar to Yahoo Answers). Maybe this is a common behavior among new visitors and Google lowered some bounce rate threshold?
Re:On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer by AJ007 on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:41PM (#7786750)
Given the leaked Google Rating Guidelines file, Metafilter's design, and running multiple blended Adsense units, it would be marked as spam when manually reviewed.