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It happened with SEO. People found a way to game their rankings by buying backlinks to their pages from spam sites. Google started punishing that behavior, so s
by matsemann 6y ago
It happened with SEO. People found a way to game their rankings by buying backlinks to their pages from spam sites. Google started punishing that behavior, so some have instead started buying backlinks for their competition to de-rank them.
- oefrha 6y agoUnfortunately, - Unscrupulous players gather inorganic points/votes/followers/whatever to get ahead in a ranking system; - Ranking system starts to detect inorganic stats and punish perpetrators; - Unscrupulous players target inorganic stats at competitors instead; is an all too common progression in any ranking system that can be gamed with input from third parties.
- withinboredom 6y agoThis reminds me of posting a free TV to Craigslist with your bosses phone number right before a stand up…
- varispeed 6y agoThat's why I pulled out all of my projects from Google index. Interestingly despite I disallow robots from parsing anything, I can still see residual data in search results over a year after I disabled crawling in robots.txt. Now my traffic is truly organic, because the only way of knowing about these is the good old word of mouth.