[schachin]

This post is just flat out wrong.

We are not using tricks when we tell you to create content. We are telling you what Google considers quality.

Tricks are for blackhats and they can work and there is nothing wrong with that, but what you are talking bout is actual white hat SEO that Google demands from sites to be considered quality enough to rank.

And the "it's easy" garbage.

Go ahead. Let us know how easy it is when you are done doing it by yourself.

This post is full of bovine feces.

[dang]

It sounds like you know a lot on this topic and have good information to contribute, but could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? For example, the rule that asks you to edit out the name-calling ("garbage", "bovine feces") is an important one.

[bartread]

> We are not using tricks when we tell you to create content. We are telling you what Google considers quality.

That may very well be true but taken to its logical conclusion all you're really admitting is that Google does a very poor job of accurately assessing the quality of any given piece of content. And that pretty much nails the point of the post.