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https://github.com/ethanleitch/seo-garbage

Searching the internet has become terrible. This blocklist aspires to make it a little less terrible by filtering out poor-quality SEO-optimised websites.
https://github.com/ethanleitch/seo-garbage

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Searching the internet has become terrible. This blocklist aspires to make it a little less terrible by filtering out poor-quality SEO-optimised websites.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ethanleitch/seo-garbage
Owner: EthanLeitch
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2023-08-27T21:14:53.000Z (about 1 year ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2023-08-30T00:28:14.000Z (about 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2023-08-30T09:23:44.656Z (about 1 year ago)
Size: 1.23 MB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 1
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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# seo-garbage 🚯
Searching the internet has become terrible. This blocklist aspires to make it a little less terrible by filtering out poor-quality SEO-optimised websites.

## Usage
You can use this blocklist with a tool like [ublacklist](https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist) to exclude certain websites from your search results.

## Contributing
Contributing is highly encouraged. If you find a website, feel free to open a pull request.

## Spotting a website
There are some common elements that emerge across SEO-optimised websites. These include:
- Information copied from other websites

- Biased information that promotes the companies own software above all others

![Biased promotion](images/biased_promotion.png)
- Sub-headings unrelated to the article's title

![Subheadings](images/unrelated_subheadings.png)
- Unrelated images

![Unrelated images](images/unrelated_images.png)
- Formatting errors

![Formatting errors](images/formatting_errors.png)
- Questions without answers

![Questions without answers](images/questions_without_answers.png)
- Poor grammar

![Poor grammar](images/poor_grammar.png)