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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by throwmesomeseo on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:19AM (#13914410)
Do you know how they detect those? It looks that even pages with 100 links pointing to only one other site, with spammy domains and keyword stuffed texts still help with Google.
Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by yohoho22 on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:03AM (#13914777)
If the algorithms don't catch them, they'll eventually attract the attention of a human Google reviewer, at which point they'll be assessed a manual penalty that will show up in the Search Console: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824?hl=en