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

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1743 points caspii | 2 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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cybice ◴[08 Jun 21 06:48 UTC] No.27431350[source]▶
As webdeveloper I have a strong feeling that we are writing web for google bot and not for people. For any website I created I have a list from SEO what to add. Like 200 links at each page bottom, different titles, headers, metas, human readable urls without query params, all that canonical urls, nofollow rules etc. Most of this things invisible to users and created only for googlebot.
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1. hliyan ◴[08 Jun 21 08:54 UTC] No.27432029[source]▶
I know that it's being done, but I don't know if it's necessary. I frequently find good old unstyled HTML pages from the 90's internet (the ones with Prev/Next/Up links, like this: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html) at the top of Google results.
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2. pbhjpbhj ◴[08 Jun 21 10:41 UTC] No.27433119[source]▶
I didn't check but to my recollection that domain is pretty old, domain age is supposed to be a principle metric for trust (which in turn is a strong signal for page rank). So, ...

I mean it's pretty reasonable, if a site has been around a long time it's going to be generally 'good'.