How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
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And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results quality. Think of these updates as a refresh of the system where rankings change: some websites see an improvement while others see a decline.

We know that at the end of the day, Google will reward us if our readers find our articles useful.

Or that’s what we thought.

You might have noticed that no matter what you google, there’s always a selection of the same publishers showing up at the top of the results.

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    This article is also a form of advertisement and self-promotion, though it does have a point about the proliferation of absolute garbage "review" and "ranking" pages you get whenever you try to figure out which doodad to chuck money at.