I was trolling around one of those unnamable web sites this morning seeing if there were any good blogging opportunities to take to help with my startup and ran into a new process called “blog you back”. If you are short of cash, but still want to get those all important cross links, this might be one way to get a bit of Google Juice for little money.

That is until Google figures this out and starts pinging on people for using the “Blog you Back” system. In reality though this is probably one of the more interesting ways to get cross links and back links back to your struggling web site. Which my start up is, we are at the “my mom is my best fan” phase of the blog and of the store. I really need people to start talking about the blog, and I really want people to start shopping at my store as well. This is an option for me to take, if I can work out what the eventual penalty is going to end up being once people start figuring this one out.

Simple, elegant, hard to detect, could result in a vicious Google penalty down the road, but then it might not if you do this right, do this slowly with a couple of links a day to make sure that it flies under the radar. I can see a lot of starting blogs, and a lot of startups wanting to use something like this to help raise themselves above the noise level on the internet.

Not quite link farming, not paid links, not any of the other things that will get you into trouble, just a simple, you talk about me, I talk about you process. In the longer run it might be worth trying, but given the history of linking for SEO purposes only, it could carry a huge penalty down the road. If anyone has tried this and suffered a Google penalty for this let me know, that would be an interesting story to listen to, and blog about.

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