One of the great joys of working on a search engine is that you get to reverse engineer SEO spam, and overall study how it evolves over time.
I’ve been noticing the search engine spam strategy of adding ‘reddit’ to page titles for a few years now, but it feels like it’s been growing a lot recently. I don’t think it’s actually working, but it’s so cute that they are trying.
It’s like 1/10 or so of comments. Though it’s fun seeing posts that have obviously been edited to advertise lemmy.
Except when it’s like… “I bet that was the answer I needed, crap.”