Monday, June 9, 2008

How to get backlinks from google.com itself.

I was analyzing some of my backlinks, and got excited when I found that I had one from none other than google.com itself! I thought about how I could duplicate and elaborate on the original strategy I used to get into Google Trends (I mean hey, google.com has got to have some high TrustRank in Google's own algo's right?). But alas, once I took a closer look at it, I saw that it wasn't from google.COM, but google.com.NF! I can only assume given the context that .nf is an entire domain that Google uses to host pages as "nofollow," in other words "useless for SEO." Sucks dude.

UPDATE: If you go to google.com.nf you can see that this is not a "nofollow" domain, but a localization of Google Search for the Norfolk Island! Why does my backlink analyzer pick up this link but not the google.com equivalent that I dug up? I am not sure yet, but I would prefer my google.com backlink be weighted than my software be exhaustive.

Not that I've even really worked for any backlinks, but hey - I would like to know about the ones I get for free.

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