• los_chill@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Despite what Google wants you to think, organic search is not the only way to get traffic. Fuck em. Time to disallow Googlebot in robots.txt and noindex your content.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      And also to explicitly feed garbage when the useragent is that of the googlebot. And while we are at it, do the same with a few other UAs too. You know which I mean.

      Of course, that may not be feasible for everyone, but I do know that my visitors are not coming from google.