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Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

SEO Dubai — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:10:29 -0000

Just loved your website theme and the upper banner is awesome dude ;)

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Car Insurance UK Directory — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:57:57 -0000

Its very hard to search for pr8 webs even by google.

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Word Hugger — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:16:40 -0000

Was this link bait? If so, how well did it do? :)

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SEO Expert Dubai — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:36:29 -0000

Well the weather is just fine here in dubai :lol:

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John Cow — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:32:22 -0000

Us evil? You must be confusing us with that chow guy :)

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John Cow — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:27:31 -0000

oh ok, what's the weather like in seo?

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ronnie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:26:16 -0000

whats the connect? we're talking about seo dude!

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John Cow — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:08:32 -0000

How's the weather in Dubai ?

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SEO Expert Dubai — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:27 -0000

You will not get any value of those links because its only showing to the user who create the links using cookies on the his/her local machine so Google bot wont see the links and wont pass and value.

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AgentSully — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:38:53 -0000

sorry I can't add any info to this discussion, but I'm grateful for the information! :razz:

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Googlelady — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:58:44 -0000

Definitively, you will not get any benefit in pagerank with this method, and about the winner congratulations for being the best stupid cow :roll: :lol:

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Karthik — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:50:07 -0000

Lol cow, your answer tickles ;)

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50 Cents Vs Kanye West — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:23:42 -0000

This is kool stuff, will try it ASAP.

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Joyce Babu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:54:15 -0000

In case Google crawler supported JavaScript and subscribed to your feed, then you would have got the link juice :) .

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Joyce Babu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:50:56 -0000

The data you see depends on some cookie values stored in your browser. Clear your cookies, and your iGoogle preference will vanish . You will have to configure it all over again. Further the pages are driven by JavaScript and are hence invisible to all bots.

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Urbanist — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:11:27 -0000

I don't really know where to start to answer this - which is probably why Jon Cow didn't try. First: toolbar-displayed PR is not the same as Google PR. John Cow does not have a PR value of 0. They are constantly updating PR values behind-the-scenes but haven't made them public for about six month.

Second: a Google PageRank value is still the best single method of assessing a website's age and/or authority quickly. Sure it is worth looking at Alexa, Technorati and others too, but those are far more easily gamed.

Finally: social media popularity brings in temporary traffic (over 1/2 million visitors to Web Urbanist in the last month alone) but even more valuable: backlinks which help you come up on Google searches and boost your PR and readers who stick around and make or break a site in the long run.

Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

AndyBeard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:15:43 -0000

Only if you charge me for the extra bandwidth your readers will be using reading it ;)

You wouldn't be that evil though.. would you?

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John Cow — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:45:30 -0000

We're not gonna get billed for that are we?

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AndyBeard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:05:56 -0000

The sacred cow even managed to get some tips out of me ;)

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John Cow — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:46:29 -0000

Never.

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Cash Quests — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:41:52 -0000

So I guess the answer to the question in the post title is:

No.

I get the feeling that you knew that and this was written so you could ask the question in a variety of forums/e-mails and get a whole bunch of hits coming through? Would you be that evil?

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BeckyS — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:53:38 -0000

your iGoogle is different to someone else's iGoogle. That means that spiders won't see your one. They will only see the login for it.

Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

Pete W — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:51:52 -0000

The page you are seeing isn't actually a page on the site, as it's being dynamically populated for you specifically. As such, the content you see doesn't actually exist as a physical page anywhere, so when Googlebot comes along, the link simply isn't there for it to spider and thus pass on linkjuice.

The same is true for any such dynamically populated page, where the content is pulled after some form of selection process from the user. In this case, the user logs in and that sets what's being pulled in. In other cases it might be selecting from a list or menu that determines what content is pulled in. In any case, because there's nothing there normally, it won't work.

Hope that helps :)

Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

Colin Klinkert — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:25:23 -0000

nice try! :D

I also am sure it wont work, but I am not an SEO expert

Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

James Wilcox — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:30 -0000

This all seems irrelevant anyway since johncow.com has a PR of 0! Do PR and Alexa rankings still matter? Seems to me the popularity contest comes from places like stumbleupon or digg or other social networking sites.