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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by iopq on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:25PM (#7787564)
People click on the search result... and hit the back button right as they see the color scheme. This ruins the Google ranking of the site.
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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by odiv on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:50PM (#7787631)
And people just started doing this mid-November 2012? Or Google only really started taking it into account then?

A lot of people have been giving earnest, authoritative sounding SEO advice, but I don't think anyone really knows except Google.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by rhizome on Thursday May 22, 2014 @10:45PM (#7787746)
Right. Meanwhile, gmane and nabble float to the top of the SERPs. Give me a break.
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