How does Hacker News keep up with its SEO ranking?

Question

Hacker news or news.ycombinator.com consists purely of links to other articles from the web (other than show HN and Ask HN [like this one]). It doesn't adheres to nofollow from search engine company. Then how does it still rank up first, is it just popularity or is there any secret ingredient to its secret seo sauce.Noob question it is but still better to ask. and what better place to ask than on it.

gus_massa · Accepted Answer

The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points. Also, most of the spam is just autokilled.

oblib · Answer

"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points."
I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention to it.
I do know they pay attention though. Links to pages on my websites that I've submitted here get crawled almost instantly.

How does Hacker News keep up with its SEO ranking?

The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points. Also, most of the spam is just autokilled.

"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points."I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention to it.I do know they pay attention though. Links to pages on my websites that I've submitted here get crawled almost instantly.

"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points."
I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention to it.
I do know they pay attention though. Links to pages on my websites that I've submitted here get crawled almost instantly.