Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO

Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by marcjohnson1985 on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:48AM (#13913630)

I'd first check if those "bridge sites" are really black hat or simply a very labour-intensive and effective way for them to increase their SEO efforts. What's the quality of those sites like?

Also, sometimes sites have a short-lived improvement on Google by using black hat tactics. However, sooner or later Google catches up and penalizes them. So be careful about copying them!

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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by throwmesomeseo on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:20AM (#13914415)

The quality is low. It's spun text I assume by some interns or outsourced. They don't make any sense to people looking for info on the subject.

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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by elastic_church on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:48AM (#13914154)

But when you only need it for the next funding found, the means justify the ends

Organic marketing means you have 10 million dollars from other people and 500 instagram followers and begging your own employees for likes. It means you waste $10,000 per day celebrating over a brief 200 person bump in your daily active users. It means one retweet has you saying "we're blowing up!"

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