Technology @lemmy.world Jamyang @lemmy.world 8 mo. ago

Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles.

www.marginalia.nu Best SEO spam 2024 reddit

One of the great joys of working on a search engine is that you get to reverse engineer SEO spam, and overall study how it evolves over time. I’ve been noticing the search engine spam strategy of adding ‘reddit’ to page titles for a few years now, but it feels like it’s been growing a lot recently. ...

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Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI-generated "recommendations"
- Even worse, Reddit
  
  Fair point
- At least the older posts seem to be okay.
  
  You mean the ones where all the comments say [deleted]?
  
  Not completely though. A while ago I've had a wave of these comments on a 3 year old post of mine. They got deleted after I've reported them at least, though I don't know if that action was done by a mod of the subreddit or site-wide admin.
- And its inaccessible to a lot of people now anyway.
That's why I use "site:reddit.com" instead of just adding "reddit"
- Advanced search techniques should be a class in 6th grade
- Don't worry, I'm sure google will disable that soon in the same way they disable all the other search syntax that used to make searching a simple and easy task
  
  "Search engine" is not equivalent to "Google".
- Or better yet, try my filter... It's "-site:reddit.com"!
Here's a tip:

site:reddit.com
- Makes me sad to think that this will soon be about as useful as "site:facebook.com" with the way Reddit is going.
  
  Yeah maybe giving corpo trash exclusivity over the sum total of human knowledge wasnt the best idea?
- Or do this:
  
  -site:reddit.com
- Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?
  
  Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.
  
  Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.
  
  Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that's hasn't happened.
  
  It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.
  
  Lemmy's built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it's resounding no.
- Okay but reddit is also becoming inaccessible; how to migrate this data?
I look forward to Google being forced to down rank any sites with “reddit” in the H1.
- Google being forced to
  
  What an odd phrase
  
  I’ve spent a lot of time working in SEO.
  
  Search results like this can drive people away from Google and toward other resources. Google likes money, and this is why they usually try to combat spammers that are gaming the system.
  
  It’s a cat and mouse game that has been happening for years. Organic search spammers find a new thing, then Google tweaks the algorithm to downrank what they’re exploiting.
As useful as Mozilla/5.0; AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.3
- Mine is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0. Joke is, this is the trimmed version (about:config xorigin and trimming settings) and some pages already have problems with it. If you strip out the OS, pages like google.com won't work anymore. Despite that you shouldn't parse the UA string...
- What browser agent is that?
  
  Trick is I took out the actually useful parts like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc. And the OS. All the agents these days have AppleWebKit and Mozilla just so old websites that look for it don't downgrade the experience.
  
  Probably Netscape
  
  firefox on iphone i would guess.
  
  Permanently Deleted
There's something very Darwinian, very artificial selection about this.
Google also sneak "reddit" into the "People also ask" section.
Stop using "reddit" and use "site:reddit.com", searchers.
I fucking hate seo abusers. I have to use a locally hosted ai for a lot of my "googling" because modern day search results are fucking worthless now.
- Is the AI open source? Curious what you're using and what your experiences with it are.
  
  llamacpp. Remember to modify the launch script to use multiple cores. Go to hugging face io and look for GGUF compatible models.
site:reddit.com
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Surely I'm not alone here.
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