Is there any way to detect websites that are SEO-optimized on Google?

Question

Let's say I'm searching for "the best pillow cushion for tailbone pain". If I come across a website that starts by talking about what tailbone pain is, whether cushion pillows help with that or not, what the benefits are for the coccyx, etc., I'm pretty sure that website is crap and is doing all this to improve their SEO and their recommended products are likely paid-ads.On the other hand, if I see a website (or a blog) that goes straight to the point and tells me what the best pillow cushions are, I'm more likely to trust that recommendation.Is there any way that we can decrease the score of SEO-improved websites so that only the ones that aren't SEO-optimized can be shown at the top? Any extension or search engine that does that would do us all a huge favor.

dazc · Accepted Answer

The likelihood of some benevolent person going to the trouble of writing such a blog is close to zero so you can assume any such site is going to be optimised some degree.A web forum where people discuss such matters is more likely to yield an uncompromised solution although the chance of such a forum being gamed still remains if there is a financial incentive to do so.

alexb_ · Answer

Very simple. You write "site:reddit.com" at the end of your URL.Independent websites for anything useful are largely a thing of the past. If you see a website that gives product recommendations, you should assume, 100% of the time, that it's a SEO sham.

0x38B · Answer

Sometimes I type in just such a search and scan a couple pages of results, looking for the least “optimized” titles. The same applies to YouTube: I’m not looking for “10 secrets to …”. It takes time but I often find a decent blog or a good video in the end.
When I do find that lone blogger writing deep content, it’s like finding buried treasure amidst a sea of junk.
I could see the next level up from an adblocker as a NN trained to recognize clickbait (and SEO-optimization); it could flag that in real time and help you find the “buried treasure” of real content.

rfergie · Answer

Do a search and the websites that rank at the top are the optimised ones

favourable · Answer

I find myself using Pinboard's search feature[0] more than Google these days. By using Pinboard you are searching what people have deemed useful and interesting, and the links are deliberately curated just for you. No snakey SEO optimizations.[0] https://pinboard.in/search

firecall · Answer

Not the worst idea I've heard!So almost an Ad' Blocker for Spam Sites?Something that hides 'low quality' spam results from the SERPs.As an addition, I'd love to hide sites that just scrape Stack Overflow!How hard can it be Google! Surely they know these scraped results are not the canonical source of the content!

Doctor_Fegg · Answer

Kagi (alternative search engine) lets you uprate or block domains. I can&rsquo;t recommend it strongly enough.

rdtwo · Answer

Remove all sites with affiliate links

Is there any way to detect websites that are SEO-optimized on Google?

Very simple. You write "site:reddit.com" at the end of your URL.
Independent websites for anything useful are largely a thing of the past. If you see a website that gives product recommendations, you should assume, 100% of the time, that it's a SEO sham.

Do a search and the websites that rank at the top are the optimised ones

I find myself using Pinboard's search feature[0] more than Google these days. By using Pinboard you are searching what people have deemed useful and interesting, and the links are deliberately curated just for you. No snakey SEO optimizations.
[0] https://pinboard.in/search

Kagi (alternative search engine) lets you uprate or block domains. I can’t recommend it strongly enough.

Remove all sites with affiliate links