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Discussion on: SEO is a lie, here's why

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I think it's cool that you went out of your way to make this however, in the future and perhaps even now keywords are becoming less important, over time. How much weight does a keyword have over a personalized searching algorithm, I suspect there is a lot more at play. We have always guessed how Google works and now I think it's even harder

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codingdudecom

actually it's not that hard: keywords are still the most important driver for Google rankings. Backlinks push a page in the search results, if users click on it then it goes up for everybody, if it's not clicked that much then it's buried in the page 2