Free links to your site(mattcutts.com)

60 pointsby ajbatacvor 18 Jahren10 comments

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/

13 comments

andreyfvor 18 Jahren

Let me get this right - this is a re-write of something on Google's blog, about a "Web2.0" equivalent to logging 404's, called "free links to your site"... why is this the top story on hacker news?

sigh

I want a "from now on, invert the votes of anyone who upvoted this crap" button.

emmettvor 18 Jahren

All I know is, this post made me check out Google WebMaster tools, and using the tool he pointed out I found a whole set of invalid links people had made to my site that need to be redirected. So it was valuable for me.

alex_cvor 18 Jahren

"re-write of something on Google's blog"

Matt Cutts works for Google - I think for many SEO types, Matt Cutts IS Google.

I agree that the title is complete linkbait, but the tool itself is useful to know about.

swdesignguyvor 18 Jahren

Google should seriously invest a little bit of money and pay to have the site design for Matt Cutts look better. Add a custom design (not a template) and maybe say somewhere that he works for Google. I've sent some customers to that site, and they don't take it seriously.

waynevor 18 Jahren

The first comment on the article brings up a good point too. Rather than spamming everyone who links to you, you can also just change the bad URL into a 301 redirect, redirecting to where you want that URL to go, and Google will pick that up.

lawrencevor 18 Jahren

yeah wayne, that's how we're going to do it.

rokhayakebevor 18 Jahren

Instead of sending 40 emails to those 40 webmasters, why don't you simply create the page and add good content to it?

axodvor 18 Jahren

Or at least get your server to return "moved permanently" and redirect to your home page.

louislouisvor 18 Jahren

just make a custom 404 page on your site with .htaccess

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nickjamesvor 18 Jahren

peregrinevor 18 Jahren

I <3 Google