[jjohansson]

I’m an SEO person, and true SEO is about providing value and helping the searcher. Not about gaming it. Google does a great job at removing the black hats, and a pretty good job at removing the grey hats, but it’s not perfect.

[rydre]

If google was really good at removing then Pinterest and Quora would have been downranked/removed from the index.

And then there is this spam site called AnalyticsVidhya whenever I search for stuff related to machine learning.

Gaming SEO still works, so I have to maintain my own blocklist of websites that automatically hides the biggest offenders from my results.

[jjohansson]

Undoubtedly true. Doesn’t change the fact that true SEO is about helping the searcher resolve their query. Google is evil, but they have the best search algorithm in town.