Occasionally we get curious about how search engines are treating the PolitiFact Bias site. We have a number of SEO advantages, perhaps the strongest being the lack of advertising.
One of our advantage was using the (still free!) Google Blogger platform. Once upon a time, using that platform gained an SEO advantage from the Google search engine. But times change, and Google's algorithms also change.
Results are mine. Thanks to algorithms, your results may vary:
DuckDuckGo: No. 1, if we don't count the sponsored link. Otherwise No. 2.
Bing: No. 1.
Google: Our Twitter account is No. 4, thanks to Jeff's fine work.
Our Facebook page ends up at the bottom of the second page of hits.
This website comes in as the fourth hit on Google's third page of results.
We count this as a result of Google's successful effort to elevate "reliable" websites and downgrade dubious ones in its search results.
Even when the dubious ones are right and the "reliable" ones are wrong.
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