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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: 0s | 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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vitus ◴[08 Jun 21 03:16 UTC] No.27430271[source]▶
> as opposed to them being the owner/developer of both sites?

If they're not owned by the same entity, then this blog post is rather odd: https://html-online.com/articles/scoreboard/

(To be fair, that entire blog seems odd...)

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1. shanecleveland ◴[08 Jun 21 04:04 UTC] No.27430542[source]▶
Agreed. Sure seems that way. Though that may actually make it less likely to be a violation than if one was paying the other for the links. Not within the spirit of the terms, but may not be a violation either.