Free Backlinks from Answers.com
Want a free backlink from Answers.com?
Here’s how:
1. Find a term that your website ranks top 10 in Google. The term could be competitive or non competitive, it doesn’t matter.
2. Point a link or several links to http://www.answers.com/keyword-term, http://www.answers.com/keyword+term, http://www.answers.com/topic/keyword-term, or http://www.answers.com/topic/keyword+term to get them indexed. Doesn’t matter where the links are coming from, the point is to get the Answers.com page indexed.
3. Free back link.
4. Remove the links to http://www.answers.com/keyword-term or http://www.answers.com/keyword+term if you worry about reciprocal links etc.
Some examples (Google Cache versions):
Lm Car Rental
Yahoopersonals
Personels/
What’s happening here?
Basically whenever Answers.com cannot find a match to a query, it displays the top 10 Google results with a bunch of sponsored links. Just like a scraper site. The top 10 results are displayed with clean html links.
One thing - since Answers.com works like a scraper site, you’ll notice some pages will end up in the supplemental index. Obvious search terms that have been scraped elsewhere will just end up in the supplemental index. Some of these Answers.com pages have some decent PR. For example this one is showing a PR 4.
Even more examples:
Google Search to find examples
All Answers.com pages that return Google results have a title like this:
Keyword Term: Web Search Results from Answers.com
So searching for “web search results from Answers.com” on the site:Answers.com will give you all the pages with Google results.
Warning:
This may be considered spam/blackhat etc.
Michael Nguyen | Search Engine Marketing | Comments (4)




September 4th, 2006 at 6:19 am
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October 26th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Great way to get some exposure, thanks for the hints. I am going on google now and answer.com too.
-Edward
April 5th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Great info, these two programs work great for generating free back links and have worked well for me, they are Digital Point and Link Vault.
Go for link vault first as the links are permanant but if you are refused for Link Vault try Digital Point.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Cool..thanks for the tip.
I’ll have to give it a try!
Daniel