• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 year ago

    They claim they didn’t ruin the Internet, but yet every single one I’ve worked with very aggressively keyword stuffed the shit out of the sites, even a blog with fake authors and carefully written junk top 10 blog posts to bring as much traffic as possible. I’ve even discovered they exploited Wordpress instances to stuff links to our site on it, when they weren’t just leaving junk comments with a link to the website.

    They’re the very reasons so many sites have so many fucking useless tutorials and top 10s and whatnot. They go after search engines, and in that process, you gotta make your site appear to have loads of articles and content about a topic so it gets favored in search engines.

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      1 year ago

      This is a different version of putting text the same color as your background at the end if your page, with your keywords typed over and over.

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      1 year ago

      Anyone who has searched for a recipe in the last few years knows that they ruined the internet with SEO shit.