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Originally Posted by Agent 488
bounce rates are not as big a factor as people think, if at all.
there are tgps and other sites that rank well too, but guess what, they are everywhere also busting their asses seo-wise.
the tubes-rank-well-due-to-bounce-rates is a cop out.
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Right now, bounce rates are already a fairly big factor. In the future, that will only increase. Moreover, tubes also get more truly organic links, since surfers are more inclined to post links to stuff they truly enjoy.
The "SE rankings are all about SEO" bullshit is one of the reasons so many people in this business are failing.
Search engines try to give the most relevant sites the best rankings. SEO is about either displaying your relevance to the search engines or faking relevance. However, if a site has the benefit of actually
being relevant, it will always have a basic advantage. Given equally valid SEO strategies, the most relevant site will almost always come out on top.
For surfers, the illegal tubes provide the most relevant content. As SE algorithms continue to improve, their advantage will continue to grow.
That is why legal tubes featuring only 2-5 minute clips have no chance in hell of winning the battle. The ones featuring long vids not only get bookmarked and shared more by surfers, they also get better rankings as the search engines continue to improve.
The path from CJs to linklists to TGPs to MGPs to blogs to tubes wasn't a coincidence, nor is it reversible. Centralized high-quality content is the golden standard of popularity. Because in the end, what matters is relevance. Give surfers more of what they want and they will almost inevitably end up coming to you in great numbers.