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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by walshemj on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:04PM (#13918729)
I haven't head that as far as I know you can still get a manual penalty for a number of issues.

I have had to help clean up one or two sites.

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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by walshemj on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#13926328)
I wonder if the down voters have ever had clear up a manual penalty.
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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by builtinbuffalo on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:36PM (#13919104)
Google said so themselves late last year.
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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by austenallred on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:30PM (#13923770)
Explain that to the manual "link spam" penalty we got in April ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO by sobani on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:59AM (#13939324)
It's only March. How do you know you're going to get a penalty next month?
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