Ten years since they paid far too much for it, Yahoo! has pulled Geocities this week.

What does that mean for SEOs? Mostly, it means there are TONNES of links waiting to be picked up. 850 million, in fact, says a group called Majestic SEO.

Here’s the concept: thousands of these Geocities pages have been taken down. The site you made at 12 with Michael Jackson midi files and Simpsons gifs: gone!

That leaves a whole lot of webmasters with links pointing to dead Geocities pages. Get those links.

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