Search algorithms & popularity factors: link, social, click, blog, industry. Since modern search engines are concerned with popularity and not direct relevancy, & big firms up the price of text link buying beyond affordability...
Its so fun to write oversimplified posts about such-and-such is dead. Not because its true. At best you can point out something is broken and alternatives are rising fast. But I wonder how the people behind the aging technology and...
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