Google Killed Your Attention Span with SEO-Friendly Articles
Everyone is complaining about AI generated articles. Because it doesn't feel authentic, which is mostly true. But no one complains about how article authors make their articles unnecessarily longer to make it more SEO-friendly, and it's a decade long problem. I think it’s more damaging than AI because it only favors Google’s site indexing algorithm, not humans.
For those who don't know, Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a technique to make your website and articles more favorable to Google’s (and other search engines’) site indexing system. It rewards you by ranking your website higher so more people will click on your link. It doesn't care about how the reader feels when reading the article. This system only favors articles being unnecessarily long so the website owner can put more ads on them through Google AdSense. You can also see a monopoly by Google here, making the internet a more useless place by rewarding authors for cramming excessive introductions and irrelevant information into a simple article. As a result, after reading through 73 paragraphs and scrolling past 16 ads, you might finally find what you’re looking for. If the author writes an article that is straightforward and concise, without unnecessary filler, it will never make it to the first page of Google search results.
Not to mention, some individuals and companies have taken advantage of this system to rank their websites higher on Google in order to deceive people. Wondershare, a company known for many deceptive business practices, once promoted their software Dr. Fone on their content marketing blog. One of the articles even claimed you could back up data from your water damaged phone using this software by plugging in your device to your computer. But the problem is that when you connect water-damaged electronics, it can further damage the device and make the data recovery impossible. YouTuber Louis Rossmann explained this in one of his videos. So I believe SEO is one of the most damaging things in the history of the internet. It mostly promotes garbage, and real talent is lost.
Things have gotten much worse since the AI revolution began. You can now generate hundreds of SEO-friendly articles in minutes. I'm not worried about the future of internet anymore. Because it's time to touch grass.
