Junk Search results from Indie Hackers
Why are there so many junk articles found on indiehackers.com when searching via google. For instance if I search for CSV site:indiehackers.com, I find more than one result that are junk text, i.e. https://www.indiehackers.com/@buckwilliams125/3ea976e606
and https://www.indiehackers.com/@Robinmiller12/7ceab0fc39
It appears these texts are generated, but for what purpose?
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The other day @channingallen was asking about possible SEO improvements for IH. Removing these articles that contain spammy links is something that needs to be done ASAP. If there are too many of them IH could risk an unnatural outbound links penalty.
These are articles. I think the 'articles' section was closed several months ago.
Try to search using site:indiehackers.com/post/ instead.
P.S. I also think @csallen or someone from the team should clean up that spam.
Thanks! That makes sense. I'll now use search within this site. Those articles definitely should be deleted :)
And make the links nofollow!
Not just this obvious spam, there is a lot of self-promotions going on disguised as mediocre helpful article while they are actually posted as promo piece to get views, clicks and eventually sales on some other site. Content marketing, SEO, web design and themes, cold emailing (spam), etc.