1. Build up popular free software – eg b2 Evolution.
2. Contain multiple links back to your site that are big keywords (eg – web hosting)
3. Due to lots of backlinks (all in the footer while having no ‘context’ with web hosting combined with your initial authority (almost 3 million backlinks according to Yahoo), rank very high for keywords like ‘web hosting’
4. Build an absolutely crap page that is nothing more than a bunch of affiliate links.
5. Profit massively.
For all this talk of how smart Googlers are and what not – this is just one example of a crap site using footer links to rank very high for a very competitive keyword. You will find the exact same in all the big keywords.
3 Responses to How to Profit (in an annoying manner).
Mubin
December 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Ah, alas the days when you could fill your footer with over 5 links and get away with it. Nowadays people only accept one link.
Hany
December 24th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Sounds just like the parked domains industry, which brings in hundreds of millions in annual revenue.
Ahmed
December 24th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Not even close – domains = people type in the domain on their own. It is upto the owner to do whatever they want with their site.
This is 100% spam – extremely obvious but *shrug* – Google the all powerful cannot even see this one.