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Hi there everybody,

It's the end of a long day and i have a few minutes to spare. So what better way than to spend those minutes on the seomoz forum.

As you might have already noticed this isn't a serious technical question, but more of a fun google related one.

As the title suggests..... Do googlwhacks still exist ?

For the people not familiar with a Googlewhack, its a 2 word search query that comes back with a signle hit in the SERPS.

Here are some examples of what used to be googlewhacks (which they aren't any more pretty much the moment someone writes about it and Google indexes it and gives up 2 results):

bamboozle guzzler

unmerciless politician

inculcating skullduggery

antiestablishmentarianism psycho

Who else remembers the good ol' Googlwhack days?

P.S. SeoMoz mods, I have no clue in what category to place this topic :). It's just a fun question, thats  all.

Hey Guys,

Finally got an answer i was looking for about 301's and link juice (pagerank) loss.

Matt Cutts posted the following video on Youtube yesterday confirming there is no linkjuice (pagerank) loss from a 301 redirect.

Check out Matt Cutts video and discuss the concequences and tactics here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Filv4pP-1nw

watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Filv4pP-1nw

Hi Matt thanks for you reaction,

I'd normally never go after directory links for an international site, but i think in the Netherlands there is something 'special' going on here.  People in Holland seem to use these directories as there 'homepage'. They are called startpagina's with www.startpagina.nl being the most authoritive one. It seems like Google values these links like any other natural link.

I'm making these conclusions after looking closely at other big players in the niche im working in.

When researching http://www.independer.nl/ http://www.easyswitch.nl/ and http://gaslicht.nl/ in open site explorer the highest rated links seem to come from these type of directories/startpagina's. They get links from subdomain directories/startpagina's that are closely related to the keywords they are trying to rank for and often have exact match anchor texts.

When i saw this i thought i could easily replicate these link profiles over time, but would only take over links from pages with good stats: PA 45+ and PR 2+.

This is how i bumped into http://auto.beginthier.nl/ with PR 0 and PA 53. Btw this site was created in 2002 according to archive.org. So its not a new page. Maybe it's the architecture as you suggested then coz the homepage has Pr 2 and the rest 0 http://www.beginthier.nl/.

Man i can't wait to start testing with these :).

I'm very curious to see how Google is going to handle this.

Looks like right now all we can do is sepculate on this.

Still fun though