fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoGoogle might have accidentally published docs about how Search works9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
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minus-squareonion@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoIt’ll get even worse now if SEO people find out how exactly you can game the algorithm
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoPretty sure that ship sailed years ago.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoi just saw a video where a guy was coaching a small group on how to do this on Reddit.
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago While this data shows what factors Google Search might take into consideration when ordering Search results, it does not reveal what the importance/”weight” of each factor is to the final ranking. Well, phew.
minus-squarewhere_am_i@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agowe absolutely couldn’t now run a few experiments and estimate the weights from them. No that’s some sorcery.
It’ll get even worse now if SEO people find out how exactly you can game the algorithm
Pretty sure that ship sailed years ago.
i just saw a video where a guy was coaching a small group on how to do this on Reddit.
Well, phew.
we absolutely couldn’t now run a few experiments and estimate the weights from them. No that’s some sorcery.