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There was a time when total number of hyperlinks to a site was an amazing metric measuring its quality.
by noosphr 6mo ago
There was a time when total number of hyperlinks to a site was an amazing metric measuring its quality.
- kang 6mo agoat that time having a website took work, while having a github account can be cheaply used to sybil attack/signal marketing
- noosphr 6mo agoForums, news groups and mailing lists counted towards pagerank in the early days.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoYeah, the time between Google appeared, until the time SEO became a concept people chased, a very brief moment of time.