Content pruning for SEO threatens web history, and experts say it is ill-advised.

It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise.

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  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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    1 year ago

    Assumptions are that the SEO team at CNET has the wrong metrics, something like average page-rank, so deleting “bad” results will improve the average without actually helping them in any way.

    This is also supported by google saying that what they are doing is not helping them.