I stand by my opinion that SEO basically ruined the internet. First keyword optimization made me scroll through seventeen paragraphs of someone’s life story before getting to a recipe for boiled eggs, and now this.
Why would someone go to the trouble of making a law firm out of NameCheap, stock art, and AI images (and seemingly copy) to send quasi-legal demands to site owners? Backlinks, that’s why.
Oof, back in the day all we had to do was write a nice email to get someone to put a backlink to our page into the sidebar of their Geocities page.
i remember back in the day they had white on white tiny keywords on the bottom of pages. it was ridiculous. then google started to check if the text was visible 🤣
the shenanigans will never end unless you have actual faithful people curating it and google absolutely won’t have it.
I remember being like 14yo and learning that “SEO specialist” is a fucking job title. Even then I was like, that sounds like a fake job, what’s the fucking value of that?
I stand by my opinion that SEO basically ruined the internet. First keyword optimization made me scroll through seventeen paragraphs of someone’s life story before getting to a recipe for boiled eggs, and now this.
Oof, back in the day all we had to do was write a nice email to get someone to put a backlink to our page into the sidebar of their Geocities page.
i remember back in the day they had white on white tiny keywords on the bottom of pages. it was ridiculous. then google started to check if the text was visible 🤣
the shenanigans will never end unless you have actual faithful people curating it and google absolutely won’t have it.
Reject search engines, return to webrings/directories
remember when sites used to get slashdotted
I remember being like 14yo and learning that “SEO specialist” is a fucking job title. Even then I was like, that sounds like a fake job, what’s the fucking value of that?