This all worked up until 5-7 years ago. SEO spam has always been there but it's like Google management decided one day to just stop fighting it.
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This all worked up until 5-7 years ago. SEO spam has always been there but it's like Google management decided one day to just stop fighting it. 1 comment
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@suetanvil @milesmcbain @jimbob “stopped fighting” about 15 years ago, started really actively encouraging about 10 years ago, and we just saw the tidal wave devastation of “search” as a function in the last 5 years or so with millions of entire sites created by algorithm, every one of them funneling money to Google via ads.