Comment by weird-eye-issue
4 years ago
That actually doesn't sound objective at all.
You can write a press release about anything and pay a distribution company like $100-400 to get it distributed to hundreds of sites.
You can also pay just $50+ to have a "guest post" on a third party site. Some will not even disclose it's a guest post but either way you can realistically use any name you want regardless.
You could even create your own "third party" site and just post the "objective" info there that is used as a source.
So I guess it is objective but that it can be gamed so easily that it is turned subjective
You can also just pay to have your article included on Wikipedia. I know someone in Hollywood who is very not notable who has an article written about him. He paid a top-level editor to write it to make sure it got through all the bullshit and didn't get deleted. It even states on the editor's page that he was paid to write the article.
Oh yeah that too.
And you can also pay people to insert links in Wikipedia articles too (which have debatable SEO benefits)