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It's the nature of algorithms with weighted variables. One variable will always be the most exploitable. The algorithm creators at best can simply move that target around, and perhaps set traps for people who try to exploit it, besides making it convoluted and setting in time-delays and such. Then they can only repeat the cycle, moving the target around.I swear SEO is just a hamster wheel in a temporal sense. I think our current SEO timeline is an infinite loop that manifested when the large hadron collider fired up pre panda/penguin and opened a hole in the fabric of SEO space-time
This is the plot of The Matrix, by the way. "You're the 9th iteration of The One, Neo. We allow you to exist. We've caught you every time and will again in the next cycle." They get a little slicker each time around but so do the "users".
As the window moves and people's attention moves away from old exploitable variables (ones that were actually leading to higher quality results), those old tricks become useful again while the majority are off in search of new tricks. It's always worth while to circle back around to basic on-page SEO tactics, at a minimum, and see what's working again.