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Originally Posted by wankawonk
I have a conjecture about why you see low-quality sites ranking so frequently in adult--it's based on nothing but my own observations and intuitions, but I think there's something to it: Because google strongly devalues adult backlinks and websites, spammy links end up being almost as valuable as good links, because a good, contextual backlink is still coming from an adult website, which google devalues. So you're able to rank a site with a spammy backlink profile (temporarily, anyway--eventually google will devalue your spam, and continue to value Pornhub's high-quality blog posts and massive, varied backlink profile) because when it comes to adult, google doesn't see a huge difference between a spammy link and a strong contextual one. Adult is all spam, as far as google is concerned.
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This is a really interesting take that makes a lot of sense. It explains why spammy linking with low-quality sites is more prevalent in adult. Thanks for the insight!
I think a lot of people try to roll with this by "churning and burning" sites. They'll make a lame site, rank it fast with black hat SEO techniques, and in 8 months when google catches on, they already have other bad sites waiting to take it's place.