• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The article is formatted like this:

    Computers are devices billions of people use each day, youre using one right now! Many PCs run windows…

    3 paragraphs later: what us a graphics driver

    4 paragraphs later: here’s how to fix a broken blorglop, followed by a 14 minute video repeating the above, 6 text paragraphs talking about blorglops but saying nothing

    Download blorglop keeper to fix your issue!

    Every paragraph has an ad after it, there’s a floating autopsy video, and a banner ad.

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      1 year ago

      The reason for this is because it pushes them higher on Google search.

      Now the same page gets visited by people with that problem, people who want to know what a graphics driver is, people who are looking at the definition of computer, …

      It is literally a job to find ways to get higher in search by writing those types of unnecessary long posts.