Once again the black hats will come out on top. As someone in that industry, there's always a new trick or method to getting your sites indexed en mass before others. If you don't have time to find it, someone in a 2nd world country (probably India) will offer the service for relatively cheap at BlackHatWorld.
On a side note on the SERP (search engine results page) of the foreseeable future, I don't accept the doom and gloom other SEOs have. Google has shown it will give credit to the top 3 links, and to be honest pretty visible credit. This will shift the target from "front page" to "top 3" sort of like Local Seo Map Packs.
Will make difficult keywords more difficult to get clicks for, but long tail keywords could be easier to rank now as a #3 ranking could garner as many clicks as a #1 ranking.
On a side note on the SERP (search engine results page) of the foreseeable future, I don't accept the doom and gloom other SEOs have. Google has shown it will give credit to the top 3 links, and to be honest pretty visible credit. This will shift the target from "front page" to "top 3" sort of like Local Seo Map Packs.
Will make difficult keywords more difficult to get clicks for, but long tail keywords could be easier to rank now as a #3 ranking could garner as many clicks as a #1 ranking.