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5 points·terrycody··6 comments

A site which translates simplified to traditional is popular? Seems like an opportunity to me.

I don't get the blackhat angle. I think casting shade on this is a bit silly. The SEO outcome isn't 2 million SIM in a rack being soft touched by rubber gloves on a chain drive: real people want to see this stuff.

Wikipedia in Portuguese isn't blackhat SEO stealing.

Yes but Wikipedia isn't translating their own content to Portuguese as an authorised sub-domain.

Their volunteers are doing so, and will also include additional or completely different content that the English version doesn't have (especially so if the subject/topic/article is more relevant in Portugal/Brazil).

It would be like if YCombinator bought a new website called PortugueseWikipediainSpanish.cc and started to scrape all of https://pt.wikipedia.org/ then auto translated it into Spanish with no authorised CC licensing.

Not only is it Blackhat SEO, it's also plagiarism and unethical.

Yea, I get the plagiarism bit. The value here would be things like advert revenue and possibly money for the final outcome which is not SEO, its straight paid search. If you want traffic, and these people will help traditional chinese people find you, then paying them for search would make sense.

The plagiarism is going to get them in the end.

Is Plagiarism "blackhat" ?

Plagiarism is illegal and blackhat.

Do the same for Hacker News and you’ll be a top 500 website

That's no possible I think, because the niche. YC is very less popular than daily topics which have a ton of searches per day, and most YC related articles have no search volumes.

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