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Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

*worse

Edit: though I can see using "worst" as a stylistic choice, even if it's improper

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just gonna leave this here, since the verge is so 'fancy': The perfect site

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dang, thats the one I meant! Had to search it and only found this one.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

So this change just shows how bad it’s gotten right?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but I like @tale's link better since it's not so potty-mouthed.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's also worse because it completely undermines the point by using a horrendous fixed width typeface and dark green on black colours for the text.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Fair point. I kind of worked around that, focusing on the content.

[–] ScribbleAddict@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

This was hilarious to read right after the verge. I couldn't stop smiling while reading it. It actually feels like a breath of fresh air considering all of the SEO sites I find myself reading lately lol.

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is anyone else on a high DPI monitor seeing how wild this site design looks?

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It looks like ass on a regular phone display. I don't know what that design is called or why it exists, but it needs to not be a thing.

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] offendicula@fedia.io 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It's on the Verge alright... verge of unreadability 🙄

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Works fine for me 🤷🏻‍♂️ (firefox on android w/ some extensions). Defs went a bit heavy on the css tho

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Works great for me on FF on Mac OS as well.

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's a mighty fine username you've got there, btw

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

Speaking of shitty web pages ... I think I have eye cancer now.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 points 10 months ago

I'm stuck at a loading screen on The Verge. F that.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] shiftymccool@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Worse" or "the worst"... unless you were going for sausage 🤷

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

"the worst" doesn't work in this headline because it just sounds like bad English.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Saw all the complaints about the web page, and as someone who likes creative web lanes from time to time, I was curious …

And yea that shit was dumb and embarrassing. Like the verge has had their branding damaged as far as I’m concerned.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, SEO sucks and all, but stop trying to reinvent reading webpages.