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FFA pages

By Allan Gardyne | Published 02/17/2005 | Search engine tips |

Don't waste your time on FFA pages

FFA stands for "free-for-all".

In Internet marketing, FFA pages were very popular several years ago. They were pages that you, as a web site owner, could visit and add a link to your site free, in a category of your choice.

Often FFA pages would publish only a certain number of links at a time. Old links automatically disappeared.

Websites created FFA pages as a way of attracting visitors to their sites. In theory, they were supposed to be a useful service. However, they often quickly became full of tasteless junk.

Then someone thought up the idea of selling software that would distribute your links to hundreds or thousands of FFA pages all over the Internet.

Suddenly no one needed to visit FFA pages. They could just endlessly blast their links out to thousands of pages that almost no humans actually saw, and because of the competition, the links might stay on those worthless pages only a few seconds.

Some companies which charge you a fee for listing your site on thousands of "search engines" are actually listing your site on thousands of almost worthless FFA pages.

At one time you could probably boost your Google PageRank by submitting your site to FFA pages. These days, such pages are more likely to pass on zero PageRank.

Comments

Comment #1 (Posted by Pete) |
I'm not sure they can do you harm, they won't do you any good but if being on them actually lowered your rankings then potentially your rivals could submit your site to them in order to ruin your ranking and eliminate their competition, as far as I know Google does not penalise you for things which other people could potentially do. If you link to the FFA pages then they will probably hurt you though
Comment #2 (Posted by Julie) |
It was popular several years ago and now’s you will get a visitor until your links automatically disappeared from link page. But FFA pages will never give you actual visitors as I feel…
Comment #3 (Posted by Alfonso) |
If you are not hosting at least one FFA PAGE you are losing money, just ask any successful guru marketer and see the answer...
http://alfonsoruiz.ws/monstertraffic

[The sales page says, "You can ask any successful marketer if they have a FFA page, and I guarantee you they will answer yes." I urge anyone thinking of getting a FFA page to actually TRY this - ask a successful marketer, or a heap of them, for an opinion. Allan.]

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