Adobe: Beyond Flash - FLEX your muscle and gain SEO EDGE
Everyone knows that Adobe is one of the elite PR10, top dawg authority sites on the web. With that knowledge it is once again a no brainer to understand that with a PR10 home page, almost every page on the domain carries a sick amount of authority and page rank.
How can you get links from Adobe? Well if your company has done some development using Adobe products, here are a few examples of how you can get involved and subsequently rewarded….
1. Apply for the 2008 Adobe Max awards. Their 2007 site has a PR8 and both winners and honorable mentions get a PR7 backlink. In fact you get more link love if you are an honorable mention then you do for winning, so it pays to have a good but not great submission.
2. Take part in Flex Camp!
Hang around and get interviewed for quotes and you can get a backlink from a page like this one.
3. Get involved with the Flex dev community. Submit content, and you get an “About the author” plug at the bottom of your entry - write a very long entry and they break it into multiple parts - more links for you.
4. Another option is to write some content for the Edge newsletter!
See, just because a full flash web site makes you cringe does not mean you should stay away from using Adobe products for development. I’ve seen a new site come out of absolutely nowhere to a PR7 with just a few Adobe.com back links.
PS - yes, it is true that PR is no longer the end all of SEO that it was a few years ago, but a backlink (or 10) from someone like Adobe can do wonders for you either way, and if your site is development related you are golden. Happy flexxing.
- Jim
