The same webmasters and practices that were building quality seo networks and focusing long term 5 years ago, are still ranking their sites, the same as they did 5 years ago.
The only thing that drastically changed was how much those ranks earned, and some of the mediums used to create and build pages/networks.
And about getting lucky, if a guy can rank different domains, for different large keyterms, I think it would be pretty logical to say they have a clue. But yes lots of guys/gals build a great site, that becomes an authority for their niche, and rank well in google, it don't make them seo's just makes them good webmasters.
A good seo will create that authority for any term, using whichever site or domain he/she choses.
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