This has been posted repeatedly over time. The problem with the site is that it has the structure of a shallow content farm and Google hates those.
Most of the pages are being properly drilled with a shallow content penalty. The pages are easily 90-95%+ constructed of repeating content farm linking or text repeating structures (the biggest piece of content on a given page is a content farm structure, this: "Slang terms with the same root words"). That's garbage filler that once upon a time was abused by content farms to fake a full page of content (which is exactly what this site is trying to do). Google destroyed that approach to luring traffic via SEO abuse a very long time ago.
To say nothing of the fact that it's just not a valuable content segment today. It's not novel, it's not in any way superior to its competition. 15 years ago a slang online dictionary might have been an amusing entertainment source for a couple of minutes. The interest in properties like this has imploded over time. Broadly these types of farms have no future and they have been dead for nearly a decade.
It'd be like being shocked that your shallow content recipe index with 25,000 recipes no longer gets the Google traffic & love that it did in 2005. Or a famous quotes site. Or a lyrics site. Well no kidding.
>This has been posted repeatedly over time. The problem with the site is that it has the structure of a shallow content farm and Google hates those.
Are we using different Googles or something? Google search absolutely adores shallow content farms, at least on topics that are typically discussed on HN.
>This has been posted repeatedly over time. The problem with the site is that it has the structure of a shallow content farm and Google hates those.
Yeah right. There may be some current changes in terms of what's considered shallow enough for Google to penalize it randomly, but have you used Google search for anything remotely popular lately? Top results are absolutely loaded with SEO-gamed drivel and generic content piled on top of itself and crosslinked. This is supposed to be somehow superior to what Google so often apparently penalizes? Please do correct me if i'm missing something here.
I would agree but, just out of interest, I got #1 on DDG for 'slang dictionary' and #2 on google uk? That's really unexpected for any site not using https.
It's the #1 for my searches at DDG, but I can't find it on the first 3 pages on google. (How do I tell ads apart on google nowadays? The 3rd link is for Urban Dictionary, but I think it's an ad.)
Remember that google results are completely personalized. Nobody else sees what you see.
I understand Google results are personalized but for a site I never visited before and a search term I never used until just now - that would be very impressive?
Dunno it might be more interesting to compare actual slang searches. In my case "slang mula" returns:
- no5 in DDG
- page 3 in google
Having said that I keep being disappointed with Google search results in general and use DDG these days instead. It might be related to their algo becoming shittier with time.
Most of the pages are being properly drilled with a shallow content penalty. The pages are easily 90-95%+ constructed of repeating content farm linking or text repeating structures (the biggest piece of content on a given page is a content farm structure, this: "Slang terms with the same root words"). That's garbage filler that once upon a time was abused by content farms to fake a full page of content (which is exactly what this site is trying to do). Google destroyed that approach to luring traffic via SEO abuse a very long time ago.
To say nothing of the fact that it's just not a valuable content segment today. It's not novel, it's not in any way superior to its competition. 15 years ago a slang online dictionary might have been an amusing entertainment source for a couple of minutes. The interest in properties like this has imploded over time. Broadly these types of farms have no future and they have been dead for nearly a decade.
It'd be like being shocked that your shallow content recipe index with 25,000 recipes no longer gets the Google traffic & love that it did in 2005. Or a famous quotes site. Or a lyrics site. Well no kidding.