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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: 0.205s | 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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1. duskwuff ◴[07 Jun 21 23:06 UTC] No.27428482[source]▶
Probably. It'd be weird for a SEO spammer to put the effort into building a popular HTML editor/optimizer just to inject links to a few sites they own and operate. It's far more likely that they're offering that link injection as a service.