Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by ChuckMcM on Thursday May 29, 2014 @11:53AM
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The scourge of low quality content has Google putting more and more pest control into their algorithm. That has started killing off the traffic to actual quality sites.
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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by wcfields on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:12PM
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Most notably, it's really taken a hard hit to MetaFilter[1]; the site had been funded by a $5 fee to join (post/comment) and Google Adwords on AskMetaFilter[2]. Now they've had to lay off several moderators which contributed to the sites high quality.