SEO Criticism
Comments primarily criticize SEO practices for prioritizing appearance over quality, ruining web content, and emerging as a problem for AI search engines, with some defending legitimate strategies.
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SEO isn't about doing the right thing, it's about looking like you are doing the right thing
how is this not good? it's exactly how "seo" became an everyday term...
Sounds in effect like what SEO / "trash article soup" companies did for Google et al the last decades.
Upvoted not for the article but for attention on the issue: SEO for AIs.There is nothing that people seeking clicks won't ruin.
Google used to be good at countering these "SEO optimizations"
The fact SEO wasn’t mentioned once makes this lose all credibility imho
The SEO places aren't dumb, they do their best to mimic legit content.
They could build Bard, they can have ML model to judge if site is SEO spam but the more you click/search the more money for them.
SEO has really ruined the internet
There's no world with SEO that is a positive, don't delude yourself