As far as I know. Nearly all engines and there “page ranking” depends on backlinks, and internal links

In the “early” days of the internet. The search engines just counted the backlinks. And generated a “ranking” with it.
“BigBig reviews” sites were treaded different as “small” sites. And when we “the normal” user talked about something in a forum.
We created a link and “push” the site ranking. And let other users know about this site.

TodayToday reviews with all different ways how links are created:

Nofollow tag
Only viewable after registration
Short URL services
and so on….

And many other ways to “prevent” search engines reading links. We forgot the “normal user”
which are the basic of every internet site, there value and there way of getting new user.

Today, it is not enough that people speak/ write about websites. All they write is “not” counted.
We prevent search engines to show us links, which are “new”. For example. I searched something
about debian and how to setup proftpd. I decided to use this search string:
debian how to setup proftd lenny. All I got was no sense. Unusable stuff.
Without the string: lenny you get “old” things. Which could be wrong, or misleading.

In my opinion, we have to rethink “how” links are treated, and published. Or we end there, where we are now:
Sites are on the top, which spread viruses, trojans and more. This is what happens, when we “lock out” the normal
users….

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