Re:Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?
by TomAnthony on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:21AM
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I think when (s)he said "paid for spam" which could be low quality out-sourced content. I assumed links to begin with too, but not no mention of links.
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A mixture of both. The site had a ton of long tail pages for unrelated content with outsourced content and spam links set up from things like forum posts, and hijacked academic pages.