Hundreds, maybe thousands of quality incoming website links for free? And the only thing you have to do is sign up and add a few links to you own webpages? Sounds too good to be true – and it just may be – but its definitely an experiment worth undertaking and something I want to be involved in.
I stumbled across a new site today, www.pyramidlinking.com, which could very well go ballistic in 2006 if enough people find out about it. Its claimed by the webmasters that if you place, say 5 links, on your site you will end up with 10 other websites linking back to you. These websites won’t necessarily be the same sites that you link to so they’re not strictly “reciprocal” links – which is great because reciprocal links tend to cancel each other out as far as many search engines are concerned. As many people know, building quality links to your website has always been one of the most difficult and tedious methods of search engine optimization, so anything that simplifies the process and still provide good quality links is great. Because all the links back to your site are individual links and not easily related to each other (like directory sites or blogrolls are), Google and the other search engines just see a link back to you and add it to your overall site score, pushing you up in the search engine results pages and making it easier for people to find you.
The way this new site works, www.pyramidlinking.com looks very promising. Each website that signs up is given a list of sites to link to. Once the links have been validated the site is added to the link queue and will receive twice as many links as it donated. The links obtained using the site are one-way static links in plain html so there are no scripts to install or tracking code to leave a footprint for search engines to detect. The links obtained are all relevant (well they will be once the beta bugs are ironed out) and, due to the nature of the program, are all of a higher PageRank than the links donated. As a bonus an innovative referral program will give all users the opportunity to earn 5 extra links for each new user they refer.
It does have a rather dumb name though, “Pyramid Linking”. Dumb because its not really a pyramid scheme anyway, so why call it that? It does have a referral system (so does Google, Amazon etc.) but its not even tiered, so aligning it to a pyramid type setup is probably more damaging than good. Still, if it becomes huge overnight – which is very possible – and people start pulling in impressive results from it them I’ll eat my words!
At the moment though its all small potatoes – which is good really. There’s a bit of work to be done on it but it does look very promising. One of the best things is that its not very well known about – being only a week or two old – so its great to get in on the ground floor. There’s not a lot of relevant sites at the moment but that should change as more sites join up and the directories are re-organized. There’s also some spammy sites but they’re getting weeded out each day. For a few links though, and enough referrals, you could end up with hundreds or thousands of back links to your site which will improve your PageRank and search engine results dramatically. Who knows, you might even give those top ten ranking blogs a kick in the behind!
And if it doesn’t work out I can just delete the links and not worry about it. After all, 5 minutes work and a cut and paste job and its done. I haven’t really lost anything at all.
Yes, yes! I know I’m a slack b**tard and I should be posting here more often, but I’ve just been too busy these past couple of months to do so. I did think about making it a New Years resolution but, on reflection, I think that if anything it will only be an “unofficial” New Years resolution…….whatever the heck THAT means???
