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DeathArrow on March 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm

>The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to "one up" the other already long posts dominating the first few results.

It's like youtube clips of type "10 Best XYZ for beginners" which take 30 minutes while 1 minute is more than enough. Content dilution at its best.

rchaud on March 14, 2022 [–]

I nearly wept when I looked up some video editing techniques for Shotcut, and saw some from a channel with titles like "Fade in/out Audio in Shotcut in 1min" and the length of the vid was genuinely 1:08 or something.

So many tutorials on Youtube are front-loaded with a long ad advertising the creator's paid courses.

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