It’s Google’s 10th anniversary. Yay! And in honour of that event, they’ve released a copy of Google’s index from 2001 - the oldest one they still have. You can visit it here:
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Now, why the Yay? Because this is a link development opportunity extrodinaire. Lots of fun and opportunity here - and entire new universe was just made easily accessible.
There are three opportunities presenting themselves to you here.
First, you now have a snapshot into listings of sites in your niche that are all 7+ years old. This is a goldmine of places to go looking for links. We know that all of these sites are old and are on the most part probably full of authority and trust. So start searching and looking for links.
Secondly, this is also a goldmine of dead sites. Do some searches, you’ll find sites that were around in 2001 and ranking, but are now defunct. Is it worth resurrecting any of these sites? Domain registrations at $10 a pop, I’d suggest giving some a try.
Thirdly, you’re finding all these defunct/dead sites right? Check the backlinks to those sites. Now, go approach the sites that link to those defunct sites - send them an email. Tell them you were playing around in that Google index found their site and the dead link. You thought they’d like to know. And since they’re removing the link anyway……you just happen to know a current site that could easily replace that defunct site (that would be your site of course).
Play around. Send out some emails. Have some fun. Get some links.
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