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just to play devil's advocate, page ranking is extremely critical for lyrics websites, where every website is functionally identical. you could argue that rapg
by amagumori 13y ago
just to play devil's advocate, page ranking is extremely critical for lyrics websites, where every website is functionally identical. you could argue that rapgenius' tweet-for-link scheme was necessary to compete in a marketplace full of lyrics sites that actually buy links for money or employ other darker-hat techniques.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoPage ranking is extremely critical for all kinds of websites. So, there's all kinds of reasons for people to cheat the system. And, when cheaters get caught, they get the appropriate page rank penalty. Saying 'but this other site paid for backlinks with money, we only paid with tweets' isn't really an appropriate defense.