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Nowadays all search engines are making so much noise against Paid Links, Reciprocal Linking and so on, crying that all links should be done organically and webmasters should not try to boost their rankings artificially. This really made me wonder how many “organic” links you can get without bothering to do any “artificial” boosts.

It is a fact that 95% of all Internet users don’t have a single clue of HTML and if they don’t use any CMS to blog or manage their content they won’t be able to put the original <a href="http://www.seonewsblog.com">SEO News</a> html code and most of them will simply write www.seonewsblog.com or just seonewsblog.com . We don’t even have to mention the fact that if that link has also TITLE element, then its most probably (99.99%) made by a friend webmaster or in some sort of “artificial” campaign. This leads to the question if Search Engines are smart enough to realize and count the plain text links with greater value than html links since they seem quite more organic.

I’digged up some data from Yahoo site explorer and Google’s Webmasters Tools and I sow that there is no text mentioned link that is counted, but I’m not really sure if this is not a way to hide the true value of those links. That made me do one very simple experiment and check out what happens.

I made a brand new website (only few pages) and put a plain text link (no html) on one of my large websites so that it will be indexed quickly. I also didn’t tell anybody about this experiment so that nobody will link to me and get that website indexed.

After few days I’ve noticed that the website was visited by Google and Yahoo and that made me pretty sure that those spiders knew that I existed somehow and most probably that was by mentioning my website in plain text. This led me to the idea that those links are indeed with some value to Search Engines, but I’m still not sure exactly how much.

Now the thing that I’m experimenting on is to put numerous text links on different pages, blogs and comments to see if this is going to boost my website’s ranking in some relatively competitive area.

The problem that I got is that I’m not sure how search engines will treat my links as there are no keywords attached and if they show some value they must be able to “sense” the topic of that particular page that is linking to me. Indeed search engines are capable of doing this and knowing what’s what since they are “smart enough” to discount non-relevant links, and therefore if you know what’s non relevant then it is fairly simple to get the idea what’s relevant on that topic.

Now I’m looking for volunteers to help me spread the word by placing some text links to my website www.venetsian.com in SEO related pages. I’m targeting seo related keywords like seo services, seo expert, website seo, seo developer and etc, so if you want to help out just place my website url. PLEASE DO NOT USE HTML! Just regular text is fine!

If you wish to participate, please send me email to venetsian at venetsian.com and I’ll give you some links in return from other websites that I own.

Cheers and thank you.
Venetsian.