[sparkzilla]

While fark.com may rank well, as a news aggregator the individual pages inside the site don't rank well. My site suffers the same problem: despite having thousands of pages of content, they all sit at the bottom of Google's results. So now I don't even bother to try to rank on Google and just use traffic from social media instead.

[jandrese]

Why would Google want to have an aggregator rank high on their search results? They are the middlemen of online news. It seems much better to have the actual article come first so you don't have to click through the link in the header to get to the content you care about.

[sparkzilla]

Yes, that's the reason, and that's why it's a challenge for anyone trying to promote a news aggregator using Google search.