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Google's algorithm only "needs to be gamed" if your content is unworthy or undesirable.

And if your content is unworthy or undesirable and you game it, then that forces worthy and desirable content to game it too in order to compete.

that is not logical because everyone wants their content found and there are only 10 spots on the first page (and adding more results per page does not fix the issue)

At some point you need a way to rank the sites

Everyone wants their content to be found, but that doesn't mean everyone's content is equally worthy based on content or relevance.

Obviously you need to rank the sites, but it just seems to me that the ranking algorithm they use doesn't correlate that well with relevance if it has to be gamed.

I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.

Why? It's just an algorithm. There's nothing magic or special about it.

It can be improved to correlate more closely with relevancy.