Re:Ask HN: Are backlinks so important to rank first in Googl...
by achairapart on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:28PM
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Yes, backlinks were the thing that made Google what it is today, their first and most famous ranking algo was all about backlinks[0].
Find "a way to hack Google ranking" is a multi billion dollar industry called SEO. Sadly, an industry gone too far[1].
Because of this, finding and discovering good, high-quality information on Internet is still a big problem unsolved to date. And it's getting worse day by day because, at the same time, more and more people are playing that SEO game flooding the web with low-quality, almost nonsense, junk content.
Find "a way to hack Google ranking" is a multi billion dollar industry called SEO. Sadly, an industry gone too far[1].
Because of this, finding and discovering good, high-quality information on Internet is still a big problem unsolved to date. And it's getting worse day by day because, at the same time, more and more people are playing that SEO game flooding the web with low-quality, almost nonsense, junk content.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792243