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Free links to your site
- rokhayakebe 18y agoInstead of sending 40 emails to those 40 webmasters, why don't you simply create the page and add good content to it?
- axod 18y agoOr at least get your server to return "moved permanently" and redirect to your home page.
- andreyf 18y agoLet 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.
- emmett 18y agoAll 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_c 18y ago"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.
- swdesignguy 18y agoGoogle 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.
- wayne 18y agoThe 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.
- lawrence 18y agoyeah wayne, that's how we're going to do it.
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- peregrine 18y agoI <3 Google
- nickjames 18y agonice..
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- louislouis 18y agojust make a custom 404 page on your site with .htaccess