Louie comments on LessWrong search traffic doubles - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Louie 25 March 2011 10:01PM

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Comment author: Louie 26 March 2011 04:24:23AM 3 points [-]

If someone wrote something like "Babies: A Rational Analysis", our site's current structuring would help it be unreasonably popular in Google. This would be analogous to Less Wrong "doing what it's best at".

CarlShulman's articles about voting are overly-popular for the same reason... probably by accident.

Comment author: Alicorn 26 March 2011 04:38:58AM 6 points [-]

Does "Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych" show this effect?

Comment author: Louie 26 March 2011 06:02:18AM 1 point [-]

yes

Comment author: JoshuaZ 26 March 2011 03:50:46PM *  1 point [-]

Can people please not write articles simply to improve Google ranking? That's dark sidish and also easily leads to a decline in content quality.

Comment author: David_Gerard 26 March 2011 09:38:10AM 1 point [-]

This would be analogous to Less Wrong "doing what it's best at".

I suggest you make a post of suggested topics that spring to mind. You don't have to write all the posts, but then someone inspired by the title can.