Yesterday, I was talking about getting creative and using some original ideas to get traffic to your site in order to deal with the sandbox. So today, I lead you to an original idea from Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld. He now has a blog - get this - in his robots.txt file!
That's right. Check out www.webmasterworld.com/robots.txt
Scroll down the file and you'll see his blog, in the form of commented lines. Now, c'mon, that's gotta be an original idea. And because of it, he'll probably get some nice links out of it. So, in that way, it's a great idea. But other than that, well, it just seems kinda dumb, ya know? I mean, who wants to visit a robots.txt file every day to read a blog? Ah well, I might be dead wrong, and Brett might be a genius for doing it. Good luck with it, Brett!
Is there any benefit to have people deep linking to your robots.txt file??? It’s not like you can put adsense on it, LOL, I guess you never know about that!
LOL. Very good point!
Yes this is very funny and original indeed.
I wish I could syndicate his content – is there any syndication tool for robots.txt files? LOL
I believe that robots.txt file already has a PR4 and some tidy links pointing at it – 254 according to the latest Yahoo! numbers.
Thing is, he could run adsense if he wanted. 🙂
After he has got all of these nice links and comments he could easily have the server handle .txt files as .html or .php files etc.
He can produce a page that “looks” exactly the same but is infact now a fully rendered file. At this point chucking a few adsense in is not an issue. 🙂
Just a thought
Dave (http://autohacks.net)