Tricking Google?

Let's say that you created reciprocal links to everyone on the internet, relevant or not, then told your robots.txt to not let the links page be indexed. Would all links linking to your site appear one-way?

 

congrats...you are the not the first person to think of it......I'm certain not the last.....

will not work pal......Give the Search Engines and the people who you are exchanging links with more credit than that

 

like ranter said, i'm sure the SEs already thought of that.

 

I figured as much, but how does a search engine know? Does it look for links, but then not index the page?

 

Have you seen the Google empire?
Have you been around long enough to remember when they started?
Do you know the amount of people working at the Google Plex?
Have you seen their reported revenue?

DUDE! this is not 2 guys in their moms garage.
The mathematicians, and the algorithms they have going on are the most advanced on the planet.
You, (nor do any of us) have the brain power to single handedly come up with some "Gilligan's Island" style, coconut powered , calculator that their staff of 75 of the best mathematicians in the world, have not compensated for by now.
JMO

 

To answer your question, I think it's an old school switch board With the big metal plugs, and vacuums.

 

You give them WAY too much credit

 

lol, funny discusiion

 

Google is the law so don't use old tricks.

 

It's possible to trick google, but they find out about it soon enough, kick your ass for trying and then fix the problem. Using this sort of strategy is risky...but entirely up to you. Your idea is an old one. New ones might work, but again, only for a short time. Ask yourself what'll happen first: you becoming rich as a result of tricking google, or google figuring your methods out?

 

Why do you think I asked in a forum? I'm not stupid enough to try this live on any of my sites, I was curious of the theory behind the reason. Yes, I was around when google started, and I'm well aware of the size of their empire.

I was wanting to know how google prevented this from happening. Do it's bots effectively ignore the robots.txt?

 

Just try it and tell us does it work or not.

 

i'm curious too..... how wld ppl find out? actually, i wld think that it is the ppl doing the link exchange with that shld be interested to spot it and not the SE's. They don't really care.

btw, check out my blog post if interested in overthrowing google

 

I think the same as jl255, you would be screwing the people you link with more than you would be screwing Google. I am not sure Google would care that much, but you would have some pissed off webmaster. This would be a great way to ruin your sites rep and yours. All anyone would have to do is check to see if you were indexed.

To save yourself the headache and make Google happy with you just add a bunch of no follows and hope for really stupid webmasters.

 

Sounds like it's one sure fire way of getting your site sandboxed to me as Google are sure to find out about the pages eventually - robots.txt or not.

I once tried to stop Googlebot from looking inside one of my sites folders and still found pages from the folder in search results.

 

Yes all the links would count as one way but if people find you doing it you won't be very popular.

 

impossible to do and Google would ban you and your children for their life time.

Honestly it is best to just be honest and do thing right.

 

Maybe, but I know if I saw any of the specs, my head would explode.

 

I wonder how many people will have second thoughts now when or if you ever decide to sell any text links? In fact this could have the potential of causing DP Members not to trust your integrity in any business dealing.

 

well, aren't the sites spidered, but PR is not just passed?