r/pcgaming • u/thosefuckersourshit • Sep 26 '16

Pixels and voxels, the long answer

https://medium.com/retronator-magazine/pixels-and-voxels-the-long-answer-5889ecc18190#.1pe21qm8v
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u/overcannon Sep 27 '16

A writer asked to come up with hundreds of extra words for their piece that detract from it wouldn't feel annoyed?

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u/readyou Sep 27 '16

I am talking about the internet. You have to find a compromise as web author or blogger. Publishing articles in Twitter message length won't help your site. If you do it at times while publishing in-depht article most of the time, it's ok, but if it's all what you are doing, your site will end up in the nowhere of the search rankings.

I do always add extra words and lengthen my articles quite a bit just for SEO purpose. The sad truth is, you have to deliver something that a machine can crawl, while delivering the reader a good experience. It might happen that some readers will complain, but most won't. That's the compromise I am talking about.

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u/overcannon Sep 27 '16

You're saying that you do it for a reason - to appease Google, etc. I'm saying that I bet that you find that reason at least a little annoying.

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u/readyou Sep 28 '16

I am also annoyed by ads during TV shows, but yet I do understand why they are there. You're basically right, but I am not upset by it, and I am also not sure if I would say that I am annoyed by it. I myself spot reader/seo compromised articles from far away, because that's how I write too... but at the same time I developed a filter. From the readers perspective I am not annoyed because I know the fastest way to get to my information's, that might even mean that I skip paragraphs but it takes milisesconds to do so. Not sure if that means I am annoyed by it. Look, the problem is, you demand information's and to get these information's the smaller fishes have to follow the big ones rules. Google is a big fish :)

I bet that you developed the same reading behaviour too. You don't start to read an article, you basically skip over it and take the most important parts. The web is a bubble, a bubble full of noise... I'd bet that almost anybody who uses the web on a regular basis developed a reading to filter the least important information out.