Back Door Google via Overture

The importance of link popularity is widely known and many articles, theories and applications have been written on the topic. We all know by now that having many web sites pointing to your web site increases your Google link popularity and can score your web site higher page ranking and consequently the site will be higher in the search engine ‘natural results’.

What we don’t know however, is that running a PPC (pay per click) campaign with Overture can increase a web site’s Google link popularity. I wish I could see the raising eyebrows of some of you https://visualmodo.com/ now. In the next few paragraphs I’m going to tell you how this method works and like everything in life its pros and cons.

So, running an Overture campaign (regardless of how successful the campaign is) will put your advertisement on thousands of web sites (refer to Overture Impressions). It’s pretty simple; there are thousands of ‘content’ web sites that use Overture ads as their main income stream. Similar to Google ads, web sites are publishing Overture ads and once a user clicks on the ads, Overture pays a small amount to the ‘content’ web site (for example see http://www.brazil.com , right click on any link on this web site then properties, you’ll see that this links back to overture). Once your ad appears on many web sites it’s ready to be indexed by Google. Google, using its famous crawler – GoogleBot, visits many web sites each day and there is a high chance that it will find, index and include the page that displays your ad in its natural results.

Sounds a bit farfetched? Let’s have a look at this example, open a browser, go to Google and type www.orangejewelry.com/ -site:www.orangejewelry.com/ into the Google search box. What you will find is around 200+ links to this web site. These are Google’s natural results; however, 90% of the links in this results set are ‘content’ pages that run Overture advertisement campaigns!!! www.orangejewelry.com is a new web site on the web that runs PPC campaign with Overture, what they found out is that they get an additional value from the campaign in the form of ‘loose link