Muckrack, Reddit and Linkedin Are Now Outranking My Articles

[ghostofseo]

Anyone else notice Muckrack now in search above the actual content they are simply linking too?

We have already seen this with Reddit, and Linkedin, now add Muckrack. Clearly Google sees these as authority sites. However it's sad that Google's spiders or crawlers or AI can't understand that these sites are not the authority. They are simply linking to the sites that are of authority.

Why make people do more clicks than necessary? Showing Forum post with a link to actual content doesn't help the end user.

[adman]

I think the parallel can be drawn to the social behavior also.
For example, someone that you don't know tell you some information, you don't believe him, because simply you can't.
But, lets say, newspaper publish that same information, then you will believe it, because newspaper is trusted by millions, surely must be the truth.
Google maybe thinks the same way.

[ghostofseo]

Can Google not find decent support staff for the forums? I posted asking why Muckrack was outranking my article and was told by a "Gold Product Expert" to not post my articles to 2 places at once. Wow that's some high level SEO / Marketing advise. Muckrack is an RSS feed that automatically pulls articles written by journalist. Since I have a "news site" these get pulled in.

[adman]

Can Google not find decent support staff for the forums?

You will never find help there, the answers are not even given by Google employees.
Dealing with Google is like dealing with a mute person.

You will find more help here then elsewhere.