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bobds
on Sept 22, 2010
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How we improved the SEO performance of WW.com, a m...
It's a continuous process. People find ways to exploit the ranking algorithms, other people improve the algorithms, and so on, ad infinitum.
wesley
on Sept 22, 2010
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So, in a way, google should be thankful for these people?
phpnode
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Google would (probably) never have become so successful if it wasn't for SEOs and spammers
ewjordan
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That's largely true because the SEOs and spammers were
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successful at gaming Google's competition that the other search engines were all but useless when Google hit the scene.
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