Getting out of a manual site reputation abuse penalty and continuing business as usual – recleudo.com

Getting out of a manual site reputation abuse penalty and continuing business as usual – recleudo.com

We’ve already seen how Finixio/Clickout’s assets were hit with serious penalties in the days following Google’s algorithm update. I have no idea whether those penalties were manual, or algorithmically applied, though I have a hunch they were manual. But they destroyed the ranking of pages that funnelled, collectively, millions of visits a month into a…

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An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?

An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?

To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar. Rankings are ubiquitous: every week, lists of best-selling records, movies, and books are released, and in sports like…

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