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ajmurmann on Jan 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Search engines and SEO spam

The main motivation to SEO crappy content seems to be ads and affiliates links. What if you take the motivation away to SEO crappy content by deprioritizing sides that contain ads or affiliate links? Of course Google would never do this, but someone else could.

inetknght on Jan 4, 2022 | [–]

> The main motivation to SEO crappy content seems to be ads and affiliates links.

Maybe the main observed motivation. But I'd argue that a lot of that is just a fraudulently-profitable front to much more devious problems.

Drew_ on Jan 4, 2022 | [–]

This doesn't work because all of the "good" content has ads and affiliate links too.

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