Google has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search rankings.

(AllHipHop News) After the lyric website Rap Genius was accused of uses link schemes to get unnatural hits, Google has apparently penalized the site. A link to “rapgenius.com” is no longer available ...

If you try to game Google, you're bound to get burned. Such is the case with Rap Genius, a site that hosts and explains lyrics to songs and copy from other texts. In an attempt to rank higher in ...

It has been revealed that search engine Google has chosen to punish lyric website Rap Genius following an SEO 'scam'. As Fact reports, the alleged 'scam' worked was to invite "open affiliates" to ...

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