How’d you boost the ranking of the 170 websites?
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Back then, 'authority' was given to sites with long articles and many (interlinked) pages. This is when the first content generators/mixers were used. add in some links, bought from pages with an already established pagerank ( Google would let you see that data). the point was not to rank all your sites, you just needed to point your generated sh*t with little pagerank all to your money site and voilà ... profit!
Yup. PageRank was magic compared to what came before it, but it can definitely be gamed!
People will do what they can to game GrapeRank. But the contextual nature of GrapeRank makes it more agile than PageRank. My expectation is that in many cases, the effort it takes for the community to counter and neutralize an exploit will be less than the expense incurred by a bad actor engaged in the exploit. Exploits will become less profitable and therefore less of a burden on the system.
yes, I guess that's the best way to go, but it does open the door to negatively influencing your competition. Ranking stuff is hard.