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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: 0.227s | source
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ilamont ◴[07 Jun 21 22:47 UTC] No.27428272[source]▶
Same story for various Wordpress plugins and widgety things that live in site footers.

Google has turned into a cesspool. Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov to search strings, searching by time periods to eliminate new "articles" that have been SEOed to the hilt, or taking out yelp and other chronic abusers that hijack local business results.

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newacct583 ◴[07 Jun 21 23:24 UTC] No.27428652[source]▶
> Google has turned into a cesspool.

All these same sites appear near the top of Bing searches too. There's nothing particularly Google-specific to this story. It's about SEO hacking that will work against anyone with a PageRank-style system.

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1. jimbob45 ◴[07 Jun 21 23:35 UTC] No.27428757[source]▶
This is my view too. Yes, I’d love to go back to a time when Google’s algorithms were unknown enough for SEO to be futile but those days are gone and the problem isn’t limited to Google.