Hacker News with Generative AI: Content Marketing

I tried to buy a guest post on TechCrunch.com (techcrunch.com)
A few times per day, I get a message that asks something along the lines of: “How much do you charge for a guest article on TechCrunch?” People are trying to get inbound links from TechCrunch for SEO reasons. The theory is: A link from TechCrunch gives your site trustworthiness in the eyes of Google, and so it’s worth doing. But is that what’s really happening here?
Google is further cracking down on sites publishing 'parasite SEO' content (theverge.com)
Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little to do with the site’s focus but that exploit the website’s Google ranking.
They want your ethics for $105 (ntietz.com)
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes."
SEO Interlinking with Cursor (twitter.com)
The Fuck It Guide to Content (joanwestenberg.com)
From One RSS Feed Entry to 186850 Hits (susam.net)