Free links to your site(mattcutts.com)

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

13 comments

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.

emmett18년 전

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_c18년 전

"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.

swdesignguy18년 전

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.

wayne18년 전

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.

lawrence18년 전

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

rokhayakebe18년 전

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

axod18년 전

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

louislouis18년 전

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

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peregrine18년 전

I <3 Google