• DrQuint@lemmy.world
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      Whenever you try to get an answer to something like “What movie was the Be Like Water line from” and you can NOT find anything other than a bunch of articles with tons of paragraphs wasting your time - that’s the SEO spam tactics. Those articles chose words that made themselves easier to be indexed by Google, but don’t actually want to answer that question.

      And yes. I literally looked this up this week.

      I still don’t fucking know if it came from Enter the Dragon or some other short series. I just gave up. Google has enshitified news articles on the internet and has to seriously consider retraining their algorithm to negatively impact shit like that.

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      Tactics to get more visible to the search engines. Optimizing the website to the search engines.

      It’s something we all must do to make a nice, visited websites. It’s also something that spammers got so good that literally everything you search is basically ¾ ads at this point.

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      One where they optimise their article and site according to how google algorithm works, and then multiply by 10. Or they funnel your search term to their own search function.