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by mattbaconz 1 day ago
Most search results nowadays are SEO farms. Posts I read are also mostly just someone debugging a weird bug for endless hours only cause they were mad, just grep output and the fix.

personal domain blogs survive faster than medium.

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At one point Google (and I presume other search engines) actively searched for and penalised content / SEO farms, hostile user patterns like invasive popups, even policing site performance. It's like they just gave up.
> personal domain blogs survive faster than medium.

Google has been aggressively de-indexing websites in the last few months

I'm looking forward to AI summaries killing SEO farms.