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.
*worse
Edit: though I can see using “worst” as a stylistic choice, even if it’s improper
For the people who didn’t read the article, the Verge is using the word perfect sarcastically.
“The relentless optimizing of pages, words, paragraphs, photos, and hundreds of other variables has led to a wasteland of capital-C Content that is competing for increasingly dwindling Google Search real estate as generative AI rears its head.” - The article
Is anyone else on a high DPI monitor seeing how wild this site design looks?
Speaking of shitty web pages … I think I have eye cancer now.
I’m stuck at a loading screen on The Verge. F that.
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.
Yeah, SEO sucks and all, but stop trying to reinvent reading webpages.
