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Wouldn't it make more sense to make suspected "black hat" SEO not contribute to a websites rankings but also not hurt it? It's always been an issue that someon
by dm2 12y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to make suspected "black hat" SEO not contribute to a websites rankings but also not hurt it?
It's always been an issue that someone can purchase links on spam websites and harm competitors, I would imagine that Google knows about this.
I don't see any advantage to harming a websites rankings because of these questionable SEO techniques.
- tomjen3 12y agoThe problem with that is that you can then post a houndred times as many links and hope that just a few of them go through. It is a cat and mouse game and we are going to get fucked.
- 0x0 12y agoAs mentioned by someone else in this thread, that opens up for spammers to turn it up a notch and spam even more. "hey it can't hurt and some may slip through & increase the pagerank"
- tedunangst 12y agoThis is why standardized tests like the SAT deduct a quarter point for wrong answers. There needs to be a "penalty" to keep the expected value even.
- bfish510 12y agoBut in this case, another student is taking your SAT exam after you've handed it in and filling in blank answers with wrong answers.
- tedunangst 12y agoNo question that somebody is cheating or that the teacher should do something. Just saying, the algorithm is punitive for a reason.
- Ensorceled 12y agoFurther, that student has no ID and misspelled your name, but some how you still don't get to go to college. Google just keeps creeping deeper into the shade ...