Richard MacManus on Nostr: This is becoming a big problem for all web publishers. I’ve noticed large non-human ...
This is becoming a big problem for all web publishers. I’ve noticed large non-human spikes on Cybercultural and the same thing is happening (on a much larger scale) at my employer The New Stack. Seems like an under-reported SEO issue…kind of reminds me of when the likes of Mashable suddenly had hundreds of thousands more RSS subscribers overnight a few times back in Web 2.0 — ie this “engagement” is not human.
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114614987765863790Published at
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