Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse
George Mihalcea
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty, Google Last spring, the entertainment and lifestyle website Bustle saw huge spikes in traffic for a handful of stories — between 150,000 and 300,000 concurrent search views each, compared to the usual 1,000 or less. Bustle had long struggled to place high in SEO rankings or land on the Google News module, but recent months had been particularly brutal, and the spikes prompted emergency meetings to figure out how to keep them going. “Bryan
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