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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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1743 points caspii | 1 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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shanecleveland ◴[07 Jun 21 21:57 UTC] No.27427628[source]▶
Could it be that Scorecounter is paying for their links to be embedded, as opposed to them being the owner/developer of both sites? If so, and provable, can they be flagged in some way?

Doesn't say much for Google's ability to determine relevancy in linking or recognizing suspicious link growth. Or perhaps it just takes some time ...

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dstick ◴[07 Jun 21 22:35 UTC] No.27428146[source]▶
If I’m not mistaken, paying for links is still very much against Google’s policies. Whatever weight that should carry... in my opinion you should always try to be as independent from Google as possible. It’s such a huge liability.
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1. shanecleveland ◴[07 Jun 21 22:53 UTC] No.27428335[source]▶
Clearly. But I guess it is not outright proven that they are technically buying links. Though they would likely fall under some form of bad behavior in Google's eyes.

And, buying or otherwise, I am not sure what the mechanism is for bringing this to Googles attention.

I doubt there is another acquisition channel for a project like this that would compare to SEO (and not just Google).