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How is "top" defined here? If they were dead, wouldn't they fairly quickly stop being "top"? EDIT: the article uses a list sorted by inlinks, and I guess other
by ehsankia 4y ago
How is "top" defined here? If they were dead, wouldn't they fairly quickly stop being "top"?
EDIT: the article uses a list sorted by inlinks, and I guess other websites don't necessarily update broken links, but that may be less true in the modern age where we have tools and automated services to automatically warn us about dead links on our websites.
- nine_k 4y agoI can expect large SEO spam clusters of "sites" with many links inside a cluster to make them look legit. For some time such bits of SEO spam were on top of certain google searches and enjoyed significant traffic, putting them firmly into "top 1M". Once a particular SEO trick is understood and "deoptimized" by Google, these "sites" no longer make money, and get abandoned.