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

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    Just add “Reddit” tag to everything and cross link multiple posts talking about that content. Basically do the work for me of having to filter through so many threads and answers. Yeah sucks to be this co depending but this would generate clicks and catch people who search for “product x Reddit”. Of course you lose those who filter by site:reddit.com. I also hope Lemmy gets big to get rid of this Reddit codependency, because I want way less manipulated information but not from Reddit which becomes more and more astroturfed. I think it’s a pipedream to get completely rid of it but at least these responses are useful most of the time and not SEO optimized.

    • CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      35·
      9 months ago

      It is worth noting that marketing companies have picked up on this and they will often create oddly specific questions on Reddit then answer them with a bought account.

      • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        Yeah there are multiple ways. Nevertheless it’s public, so people can vote on stuff and reply when the response is bullshit. That’s why I think visible downvotes are very important. If you have an answer botted to be on spot one of the replies but it has like 200% the downvotes, it’s possible that there’s something fishy going on and one can evaluate. That’s not possible if you can’t see this addition info and only the sum of votes.

      • inverted_deflector@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Picked it up years ago too. Its worth it to check multiple threads, and read multiple comments, and then do an additional deeper dive from there, but the amount of guerilla marketing and astro turfing on social media is astounding. I do miss those early days when the old farts in charge of marketing didnt pay attention to message boards.

      • Typhoonigator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        This is illustrated pretty nicely at the end of the article; where they highlight just such a comment, the link it posted, and the suspended account page for the user.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      Which is why anyone who’s ever helped on reddit should’ve sucked it up and FullDeleteSuited their account.

      I lost so much, but did it anyway.

      Then again I’ll be sucking it up and going back soon for anime and media discussions soon. Unfortunately there’s nowhere populated enough.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        They stored all the edits, from before the API changes. They can and have undeleted entire accounts. I agree that deleting the account would be nice, but they acted in bad faith from the Digg migration that I saw. I don’t believe that deleting the accounts worked, cause I did and I can find my old posts again.