What is Google Bomb?

[dmnr143]

Google Bomb refers to practices intended to influence the ranking of particular pages in results returned by the Google search engine,in order to increase the likelihood of people finding and clicking on selections in which the individual or other entity engaging in this practice is interested.

[lojogroup]

Can you please explain more about "Google Bomb" and its effects ?

[surajdeshmukh]

You can get the details of Google Bomb here :- http://google.about.com/od/socialtoolsf ... mbatcl.htm

[maxluke]

Google and Google bomb Washington refer to practices aimed at influencing the location of some pages of results returned by Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions.

[amberlangley00]

As for the effects, with the numerous links for a keyword placed on different sites to lead to a certain site, it may lead to the site's crash. I don't think this google bomb is good cause it is usually done for mischief and unpleasant reasons like to disrupt a certain site

[VladTepes]

Google Bomb is just like an SEO practices on Google and internet early years where you can easily make a page rank in a particular keyword with just spamming a it's link and anchor text around any random sites, then over stuffing that keyword on that page. Google already taken control of this practice..

[jackcalara]

Google Bomb is a seo practice. When a webmaster posting his link with a single keyword. Like you are using your single keyword in every where it seem like bomb, in Google language we call it Google Bomb. It should be spamming.

[sumit.dpfoc]

I was not aware of this term but as per discussion carried out here I think it is a spammy technique and one should avoid it. Although I will dig about it more.

[James77]

A Google bomb is an attempt to bias a search result on Google PageRank algorithm by increasing a website does not only keywords when determining PageRank, it also considers the number of other sites that point to a page and the words used in describing the link. A Google bomb successfully requires a number of websites (blogs that often work together) link to a specific Web page by using certain words in the hyperlink. Mobilize high traffic sites is especially important when creating a Google bomb as their outbound links carry more weight in the search algorithm of Google.

[rickymartin213]

As for the personalty, with the numerous course for a keyword placed on other sites to perform to a certain position, it may graphite to the site's hit. I don't cogitate this google flop is favourable justification it is commonly done for evilness and beastly reasons equal to stop a foreordained computer

[bloomtools]

A google bomb is when links are put in several sites on the internet by a number of people so it leads a particular keyword search combination to a specific site and the site is deluged/swamped (it may crash the site) with hits. They are usually done for mischief or humorous reasons such as to try to disrupt a targeted politician's site.

[my_misyel]

Actually, a Google bomb does work. However, the method has become so prevalent in the last few years that the Google guys were already able to develop some measures against it.

[lojogroup]

Thank u all for this nice explanation about "Google Bomb".

[crovax85]

Quite an interesting concept Too bad it does not work anymore.

I suppose it is in Google best interest to fix things like that. Who know what the SEO community could so with something like that

[Courtneyadia]

It can also be called ‘link bomb’ since it is the method to influence the ranking of a Google page on certain specific words. The most famous incidence of this method was when 32 webmasters placed the text ‘miserable failure’ on their sites with a link to George Bush’s autobiography page. These links raised George Bush’s site on the top position in Google when searching by ‘miserable failure’

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