--- title: "Google is getting even worse for independent sites" url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-is-getting-even-worse-for-independent-sites-xw7tpxhjf source_url: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147152/google-search-seo-publishing-housefresh-product-reviews type: article source: "The Verge" published: 2024-05-02T15:53:25.771Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z tags: ["google", "seo"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 6 comments: 2 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google is getting even worse for independent sites **[The Verge](https://daily.dev/sources/theverge)** · 3 min read · 6 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Independent publishers have been gradually bumped out of Google search results, with big media companies taking their place. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kyoukhana** · 0 upvotes > Even Google Gemini isn't great either **@bpowell** · 0 upvotes > Google Search results in general are bad. Google crawling is related to how often you publish, how many pingbacks you have from "high quality" sites, and a few others things I don't remember off the top of my head. > > I have an independent blog on the gaming industry and after 2 years Google barely indexed any of my content (but it had crawled it) and as a result my search placement was handicapped. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#seo](https://daily.dev/tags/seo) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-is-getting-even-worse-for-independent-sites-xw7tpxhjf)