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Do you know many black hat techniques? Around 2011-2013 was when Google shifted from being extremely easy to game to very difficult. 2014 was really the end of
by bananaface 6y ago
Do you know many black hat techniques? Around 2011-2013 was when Google shifted from being extremely easy to game to very difficult. 2014 was really the end of it. Have a look at some niche site blogs from the time - revenue from new niche sites tanked from like $1.5k/month each to barely close to $100 (with a lot more work up front).
Anyway my point is if you rewound the clock to 2008, you'd have a way bigger problem than you might think.
- eitland 6y agoFine. But we must still must be able to separate between backend and frontend: it should be possible to upgrade the anti-spam machinery without breaking - doublequotes - + (ok, they broke that deliberately around Google+) - the verbatim operator All those should be able to work even if the crawler and processing techniques are updated, right? Also a heads up: I added some more details to my post above,I didn't think you would answer so fast :-) Edit: I only know the black hat methods that was well know 10 years ago like: - backlink farming from comment fields (we protected against it by applying nofollow to all links in comments) - Google bombing (coordinated efforts to link to certain pages with particular words in the link, trying to get Google to return a specific result for an unrelated query. I think the canonical example was something like a bunch of people making links with the text "a massive failure" that all pointed to the White house website. - Link-for-link schemes - etc