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Home Using Google bombing

Using Google bombing

Google bombing is endeavoring to get a web page ranked highly for a phrase by persuading websites to link to the page using the phrase as the words in the link.

Adam Mathes apparently invented the practise in 2001. He persuaded blog owners to link to a friend’s site using the phrase “talentless hack”.

Here’s another example. If you type the phrase “miserable failure” into Google, you may see George W. Bush’s biography as the first entry on the search results page.

The technique works because Google places a lot of importance on “anchor text”, the clickable words in a link.

You can use this fact to help your pages rank highly in search engines. When asking other sites to link to you, provide them with a snippet of HTML code to paste into their pages. With any luck, they’ll use it unchanged.

However, don’t make the anchor text exactly the same in all links. To search engines, that would look like an artificial link structure.

Google bombing works at MSN and Yahoo!

I’ve just checked. If you type “miserable failure” into the search box at Google, Yahoo! and MSN today, the Bush biography is the No.1 ranking site on all three major search engines.

This was true when I tested it in February 2005 and again in December 2005.

So choosing your anchor text carefully is still very important for all three main search engines.

2007 Update

In January, 2007, Google wrote an algorithm which reduced the impact of many prank Google bombs, where people linked to pages which did not contain the phrase used in the links. So when linking to any page, always use relevant phrases.

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For excellent search engine tips updated every month, the best source on the Net is Stephen Mahaney’s Unfair Advantage Book On Winning The Search Engine Wars. This is the source the professionals use. I’ve been a subscriber for years.

Dec 13, 2005Allan Gardyne
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Comments: 4
  1. Phil Dunk
    18 years ago

    Hi, I can't get my head round the difference between 'Anchor' and 'Link' to link to another page or site?
    Phil Dunk
    http://www.thegreatgolfer.com

    ["Anchor text" is the words you use when you're linking to another page or site. Anchor text is the hyperlinked words you click on. It's important that the words are carefully chosen, because they tell the search engines what the page is about. Allan.

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  2. Malcolm
    16 years ago

    well this is very interesting to know that anchor text plays a vital role in ranking your site. Till now I have't use so much for my website.

    Can you please suggest me some anchor related tips I can use for my website www.split5.com

    [Normally you would want links to each of the main pages on your site using anchor text which uses words or a phrase from each title. However, you've designed your site so that every page has exactly the same title. You should have a different title for each page. Allan.]

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  3. Jack
    16 years ago

    Quote - "Here's another example. If you type the phrase "miserable failure" into Google, you may see George W. Bush's biography as the first entry on the search results page".

    Hahahaha.

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  4. Mike Evans
    15 years ago

    One of those great ironies, Google has removed the 'bomb' which placed George Bush at the top of a search for 'miserable failure', but now articles reporting how the Google bomb was used are there instead, this one will run and run !!

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