Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
by superasn on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:46PM
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That is certainly eye opening and it's really amazing news. Hopefully in future the rankings could be fairly decided on usefulness and merit than who can buy or trick the most links.
Anyway so how would you explain the rankings of sites in this article? I thought all that was going for these guys were just the insane amount of links pointing to their site.
Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
by wyaeld on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:29PM
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Google collects immense of data about people's actual visits.
Backlinks used to be a proxy for how authoritative things were
You don't need the proxy when you have the record of where people actually visit.
Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
by rocho on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:55AM
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That's very effective for the top results. But if legit sites cannot rank in the first spots they'll get orders of magnitude fewer visits than the scam sites that employ SEO hacks to get the first places.
Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
by shitRETARDSsay on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:33PM
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Like the backlink spammers on the article, which are winning?
but yea "narrative"
Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
by blobster on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:20AM
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Interesting, but this does not seem to match empirical evidence by the likes of Ahrefs, which suggests that links are by far the most important ranking factor.
Google (and others) keep up the narrative that they're important so that black and grey hat SEO folks keep focusing effort in the wrong places.
Source: ran the web spam detection team on a different well known search engine