Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

I know - Back in 2002, I used to do it myself. I wanted to make sure that google 'knew' about me... But that was 2002. In 2013, google knows when you take a shit! Without even having analytics on your site, which most serious people will have anyway...

I actually contacted google back in 2002, and politely asked them, that as I had a direct hardlink to them on my site, would they do the same in return, and put one up for me, on the front page of google?

I never did receive a reply though...