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Originally Posted by Klen
Interesting, just noticed how porn.com is back on top 10 for keyword porn. Last time i checked they were nowhere to be found on it. So it seems now is better to run scrapper tube then regular tube lol
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yeah and you'll notice that some of the sites from the iwank network (which had previously been de-indexed) are back and ranking highly
i don't think its specifically that CJ/aggregator tubes got a boost (SERPs have always been mostly big tubes + aggregators), but that older CJ/aggregator tubes (like mine, or iwank.tv) that had previously received a penalty, have had this penalty lifted and are now ranking. 2 weeks ago, the CJ/aggregator tubes that were ranking, were mostly new (ie, new enough that they haven't received a penalty for the shady tactics that basically all CJ/aggregator tubes use)
Personally I think the takeaway here is that google has relaxed their focus on spam/backlinks a bit, and moved their focus more to user engagement metrics. I think they were trying so hard to prevent SEO from being effective that it negatively affected their user experience metrics, so they said "fuck it, relax the spam penalties and let the site with the best bounce rate win."
the takeaway here for me isn't "go spam the shit out of all your sites" but rather "if you have a good site with good user engagement metrics spam will hurt less than it used to and it might even help"