Sergey Lorens

Most SEO optimizers are under the impression that the indexing of their sites is only possible after having a few links point back to the website they want to get indexed. Only those clickable url’s, which look like

<a href=”www.website.com”>anchor text</a>

are considered to be valuable from an SEO point of view. Therefore, un-clickable url’s in the body of any content text is not considered a backlink and does not have any value. But is this true?

This year I am graduating from the university. That is why one of my classmates and I have been working on our diplomas for quite a long time. The theme of my diploma was an online shop and the theme of my friends work was a website connected with stock trading. A month ago we finally concluded the work necessary for our diplomas and both our websites were launched within a couple of days of each other.

We both used Godaddy to buy domain names and Hostgator to host the sites. Of course, only a small number of people have seen our websites. I didn’t promote my website because the sole aim of it at the time was to show my programming skills to the professors, not to show my marketing skills. Consequently, there were no backlinks pointing to the website. My classmate was in the same situation.

A few days ago we successfully demonstrated our projects to a committee and they approved it. I then decided to check whether my website had been indexed or not. To my surprise, ALL the pages on my website were indexed. Moreover, my classmate’s website had also been indexed. After a quick search I found that there was only one place online where our websites had been mentioned and that was on domain-daily.com. This website automatically lists all domains that are registered on a particular date. Our websites were listed there too, but you can only find a list of unlikable text url’s on the website.

Judging by these results I can only surmise that Google considers these links as positive votes for your website. Today I had a discussion with some of my friends who happen to be involved in search engine optimization and internet marketing. They had a very interesting theory. When testing my website, I used Firefox, Internet Explorer and the recent Google browser “Chrome” to see whether everything was functioning properly. They think that Google Chrome might have been sharing some information about the websites you visit with Google. I found this theory very interesting, however, presently it is almost impossible to prove or disapprove otherwise. I shall continue to look into this and will keep you informed.

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