Rap Genius Traffic Tanked After Google Smacked It Down for Spamming

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Nitasha Tiku

12/26/13 11:15AM

Filed to: Rap Genius

Quantcast shows that the number of unique visitors to Rap Genius has dropped 60 percent since Google punished the startup for its questionable SEO scheme. Last year, unique visitors to Rap Genius only dropped about 15 percent from Christmas Eve to Christmas. Rap Genius has not responded to request for comment from Valleywag sent yesterday and today.

A spokesperson for Quantcast told Valleywag that the traffic numbers displayed above are complete: "The reach data includes up through December 25th."

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CpnSisko Nitasha Tiku 12/26/13 11:37AM

Maybe it's time to stop giving these frat boys free publicity.

username CpnSisko 12/26/13 11:42AM

Oh good, gawker changed the commenting system...again

ricardo amanueces CpnSisko 12/26/13 12:09PM

Why? Their misfortune...*amuses* me.

Norbs username 12/26/13 12:16PM

IKR... wtf?

CpnSisko ricardo amanueces 12/26/13 12:30PM

Every one of these articles is just a big christmas present for the website in question.

Walkin_mn Nitasha Tiku 12/26/13 11:50AM

It's sad they used this technics i really enjoy the site.

TeamRyan Walkin_mn 12/26/13 11:59AM

Well, it still exists, you can still enjoy it.

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HowitWasitis Nitasha Tiku 12/27/13 07:55PM

have to agree making you join anything to make a comment is as big a turn off as it gets.

and then they super size the big turn off by making you torture your friends with the fact that you had to join something to comment. it seems the tech business is being run by grade school kids that never learned about personal space. and what should be or shoouldn't be appropriate. not a good trend and one sure to teach the the tech community a few good lessons about human nature..