Red Ventures [a private equity-backed marketing firm that owns CNET] has applied a ruthless SEO strategy to its slate of outlets, which also includes The Points Guy, Healthline, and Bankrate.
Whoa, how did my search engine blocklist end up in a Verge article?
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Who’s a good bot?
YOU ARE
Usefull bot.
back to the mid-1990s
Didn’t know CNET started in 1992
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From a SEO point of view, the idea of removing duplicated or very similar content is good, but for news websites… I don’t know. Why not use “noindex” on pages/sitemaps of old pages and “nofollow” inside the site for old links? At least they wouldn’t create link rot.
Edit: I recommend reading this: https://searchengineland.com/google-warns-against-content-pruning-as-cnet-deletes-thousands-of-pages-430509
Stupid RedVentures ruined my favorite gaming site, giantbomb. I’m glad Nextlander exists now but I miss Jeff G. I don’t like his solo podcast, unfortunately.
Why’s this news? I’d say most sites of similar style do this.
