SEO Files: What is Google Bombing?

SEO Files > What is Google Bombing?

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] For example, if a user registers many domains and all of them link to a main site with the text "... is a living legend" then searching for "living legend" on Google will return the main site higher in the ranking, even if the phrase "living legend" doesn't appear on the main site. A common means of exploiting this is through weblogs, where although the entry may disappear from the main page quickly, the short-term effects of a link can dramatically affect the ranking of a given site. Empirical results indicate that it does not take a large number of websites to achieve a Googlebomb.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Flush the flash: The greatest disadvantage to using flash is that search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista etc cannot index Flash files. So Flash in effect will never help improve the search engine ranking. Although there are ways around this by using part flash and part normal text outside of the flash file.

[Online Marketer's Blog] For SEO, go Firefox: SearchStatus - I just discovered a feature where you right click on the @ sign on the SearchStatus toolbar and it comes up with a menu allowing you to show backlinks for Google, Yahoo and MSN in one go. It opens up multiple tabs to do this ....

[PETER VERSTEGEN's BLOGS] SEARCHING BEYOND GOOGLE AND YAHOO: NINE ONLINE SEARCH ENGINES COMPARED - INTERNET...: May 9, 2005 Totally devoted to Google or Yahoo when it comes to search? Too bad. Search engine alternatives such as A9, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, Lycos, and MSN Search are launching innovative tools and services to catch up with the two Web searching giants.

[Markcarey.com] GoogleGuy Says - Google Ranking Info: To be consistent with our guidelines, we’re removing these pages from our index. I think the pages are already gone from most of our data centers-a search like [site:google.com/support] didn’t return any of these pages when I checked. Once the pages are fully changed, people will have to follow the same procedure that anyone else would (email webmaster at google.com with the subject “Reinclusion request” to explain the situation)

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[Blog.searchenginewatch.com] Google Ranking Itself Tops For Britney Spears & The Need For ...: Google lists over 100 pages that are linking to that page, such as The Guardian mentioning the page about Britney or this site commenting on the page back in 2003. Google, of course,doesn't show all the links it knows about. So heading over to Yahoo, wesee there are nearly 2,000 pages linking to that page, such as this one from Wired back in 2002. Google has certainly indexed some of those links that Yahoo has also found, even if it doesn't show them.

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