HN SEO Link Spam
Users discuss suspicious spam links on Hacker News pages, suspecting they are manipulative tactics to gain high-value backlinks for SEO benefits like pagerank and rankings, despite nofollow attributes.
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Someone trying to do SEO by getting links to their site from a popular one?
Wonder how/if this will effect google? They profit from providing links.
What's the deal with the seemingly-spam links at the bottom of this page? Does it contribute to SEO somehow?
May it is a SEM gimmick? Get you to link to them?
It's well-known that adding yourself to link directories are bad for SEO. How is this different?
Where does linkbaiting rate on this scale?
SEO, probably a cheap way to get a link from a high PR website.
And marketer using it to generate back links.
This is exacltly what you would get if you'd deliberately moved all links to the legitimate site way down. Maybe because it's your competition?
Don't karma points place my links higher?