[Ipg-smz] New Google algorithms cost a site 99% of its traffic

[Christine Hall]

+1 Thank you, Andy. I've actually found Mercola to be a good source of 
information, but I'm able to understand his biases and apply my own 
mental filters to compensate for them. Personally, I think that a world 
where the necessity of reading between the lines and understanding the 
biases of your source is not only impossible, but not even to be desired.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 6/28/19 2:15 PM, Andy Patrizio wrote:
> And here is one on autism and C-sections
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> https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/10/24/c-sections-autism.aspx
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> Sources? The Guardian, JAMA Psychiatry, Science Daily, Medical Daily, Newsweek, UC Davis Newsroom, etc/
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> We can go back and forth all day but what it comes down to is a bunch of you don't believe in alternative medicine and therefore have no problem with Google hosing the guy and no concern that one day a site you work for will be deemed double plus ungood and buried. So I'm not interested in going any further on the topic.
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> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Tom Geller
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 3:22 PM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] New Google algorithms cost a site 99% of its traffic
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> On 27 Jun 2019, at 21:31, Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com> wrote:
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>> Did you actually look at the articles, which repeatedly cite and link to news sources, or just dismiss it out of hand because you don’t agree with it?
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> This is a fair question, so I went to the top story currently on the mercola.com site ("Research confirms gut-brain connection in autism",  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/27/autism-and-the-gut-brain-connection.aspx) and went through the links. Here are the results:
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> Number of links: 12
> Of those:
>    * number of links to articles on mercola.com: 12
>    * number of links to third-party sources: 0
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