RE: The Current State of the Internet | SEO Destroying Content
Hi! I can only confirm your words. I used to create my own amateur sites, write content for them myself, optimize them as best I could. One of the sites had 5,000 visitors a day. It was dedicated to science and I'm sure visitors thought it was written by an "expert".
Later, Google improved the search algorithm, and without investing, to bring the article to the top 10 for search queries became very difficult. Traffic to my sites dropped and I closed them.
Then I started writing articles to order. It was a good extra income. I could write articles that were optimized for a particular search query. I had to write about electric cars, furniture, repairs in apartments, advertising services, etc. The only thing I didn't do was medicine.
That's why I agree with you, most of the content we read with you is created unprofessionally.
Right now, I'm in a WhatsApp group with around 40 other college/school kids and three pro content creators. They are literally writing reviews about products that they have never used. Crypto articles too. Articles I see are mainly just rephrased well and optimized to rank higher for certain keywords. It's a sad state. Unless you actually know a particular topic yourself, you cannot call out the incorrect information.
There's an article on the internet that claims that double spending on Bitcoin network is an easy task. So, these are the incorrect claims that are irritating to me. It's not just the internet at this point. Even the local news channels here in India also put up a lot of crap just cause it gets them more TRP.
SEO for the internet is something like bid bots for Steemit. SEO brings money, so it is insurmountable.
Haha... That analogy is epic🤣