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>websites are penalized for even linking to low-ranking pages! So the top hundred sites link to each other and everything else gets ignored. This the equivale
by swayvil 4y ago
>websites are penalized for even linking to low-ranking pages!
So the top hundred sites link to each other and everything else gets ignored.
This the equivalent of social media's echo chambers.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI would like to see a source for that claim though. Seems odd to me. Also most pages are low ranking. Even on say HN which is probably high ranking, the page for this comment is likely to be low ranking, because it is new and nothing is linking to it (other than the one link from another leaf-like page).
- codefreeordie 4y agoThis gets even more effective once you layer in content-based ranking adjustments -- where defined types of content or viewpoints get automatically downranked. You downrank the content directly, and then the rest of the web is highly penalized from even linking to the "disapproved" content, and so that content effectively disappears from the internet, except in tiny dark corners that aren't found via search.