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Any ideas _why_ it lost so much traffic exactly?

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it's a pearl-clutching misogynistic and *phobic tabloid. wikipedia doesn't allow citations from them either

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...

https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-d...

Alright sounds good. By the way where do we go to find out whether a publication is misogynistic and *phobic? We need to make sure we keep the internet safe!

https://stopfundinghate.info/ is UK based and focuses on UK tabloids that use xenophobic exaggerations to increase sales

This is one of the more reputable catalogs of hate groups, including internet publications:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...

They’ve been around much longer than the internet, fwiw.

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Looks like the site drops in the rankings because it's not mobile friendly https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7...

Because they perfected the exploitation of Googles search algorithm? Have a look at the site. It is literally a clickbait content farm.

Their articles are full of mistakes. It isn't uncommon for the labels under the photos to ID the incorrect people. I wonder how much of the writing was original and how much was re-writes of previous articles or other publisher's articles.

Daily Mail is the sort of “paper” you use to line a bird cage with

oh sure, I know cause I used to deliver it as a paper boy, got a good grounding but that doesn't explain why it dropped in Google rank.

It got dropped in rank because Google decided something else should be higher ranked. How do you propose google rank things? Don't forget people will always game whatever your ranking algorithm, so please elaborate how you'll deal with that too.

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