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by lazyeye 1404 days ago
This is not remotely a new idea for Google.

Why are they suddenly concerned about it now?

2 comments

Not a new idea, but they've stepped up the language and announced new signals to encourage sites to stop trying to game the search engine with useless content.

SEO consultants might need to start hiring good writers instead of bean-counters: "We've audited your site and you need 10 more landing pages each containing 250 words of lifeless keyword-stuffed repetition."

If this solves the problem where their results are useless unless you add "reddit", it's the best thing they could be doing.