More Google Backlinks, for Free!
Posted by jonathan at 11:55am EST on 02/08/2008
Google’s at it again with more of those lovely free backlinks we love. This one comes to us directly as a freebie (almost).
With just a little effort on your part, Google could include you in their backlinks today!
Today, we’re looking at http://services.google.com/websiteoptimizer/.
SELand’s Andrew Goodman wrote up an article about the Google Website Optimizer Beta provided for AdWords users. Looks like he got a nice shout out from Google and plenty of link love. The page above is a hefty PageRank 7 and the SELand article is sitting nicely at a PageRank 5.
But wait! There’s more! You too could get a free backlink! They have an internal PageRank 6 page which you could get listed on! All you need to do is use their service and you too could qualify!
Ha. If you haven’t figured out by now, this article is kind of a joke. PageRank isn’t what it used to be, as Tamar points out, but it’s fun to still play games with PageRank.
Jason Bridgewater
Feb 19th, 2008
I don’t think we will ever get ahead of the game if the goalposts keep moving.
Google stipulate various umethods they use to determine who should go top of the listings. When you spend 2+ hard years building your ranking up so you apear above your opposition they change the criteria and you lose out and have to start all over again.
I don’t see how millions of businesses charging around to get useless backlinks from blogs and directories that aren’t relevant to their business is constructive!
*Rant over
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