Page Authority and Google updates favouring websites with black hat practices ?
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Can someone explain how is it that most of the competitors I have online and that rank in first page of the search results almost entirely get links ( in the thousands) and still have higher or equal domain/page authority than mine?
I went 1 by 1 checking all their links and they mostly come from sex pages, and non related sites.
I say stop creating angry pandas and penguins and start taking out of the game people that just play dirty.
Thanks.
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it depends heavily on your niche. If everyone is doing it then it means that it is lucrative and these guys will just make churn and burn domains just to cash in so it will never go away permanently.
You'll see sites come and go but eventually, you will win if you keep up the work.
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Maybe temporarily, but I wouldn't bank on them lasting long. When Google comes for them, it will just give you that much more joy when they are sent to oblivion.
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