Comments on: Algorithm to reduce Googlebomb impact http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chris Bell http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-257761 Chris Bell Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:20:46 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-257761 Well Googlebombs sure haven't been fixed, if they ever were. Try this search: bad fishing charters in RI Scroll to the bottom of the search results. you see the message: Tip: These results do not include the word "bad". Show results that include "bad". So the whole page of results has the word 'bad' in links to these sites. This isn't right, because when the word exists on the page, you often see a snippet which can give you the context. When the word is only in links, there is no snippet and so it can appear that the site is in fact "bad" "worst" "miserable loser" etc. Oh, and you can bet that the owners and promoters of those websites didn't set up those links. Since that are the highest ranking for the result without the word 'bad' it takes very few links to get the effect. I know I didn't setup any such link with the word bad in it. After all, why would I want my site to show up for such a result? Give me the option in Webmaster tools to block my site in showing up on results for words that aren't on the page. Why even supply results where the word does not actually appear on the page? You can't tell me the technolgy doesn't exist, otherwise that message wouldn't appear at the bottom. That puts a stop to the problem completely. Now your site doesn't show up for these types of bombs. By the way, this is just one example of many that I've found. Well Googlebombs sure haven’t been fixed, if they ever were.

Try this search:

bad fishing charters in RI

Scroll to the bottom of the search results. you see the message:

Tip: These results do not include the word “bad”. Show results that include “bad”.

So the whole page of results has the word ‘bad’ in links to these sites. This isn’t right, because when the word exists on the page, you often see a snippet which can give you the context. When the word is only in links, there is no snippet and so it can appear that the site is in fact “bad” “worst” “miserable loser” etc.

Oh, and you can bet that the owners and promoters of those websites didn’t set up those links. Since that are the highest ranking for the result without the word ‘bad’ it takes very few links to get the effect. I know I didn’t setup any such link with the word bad in it.

After all, why would I want my site to show up for such a result? Give me the option in Webmaster tools to block my site in showing up on results for words that aren’t on the page.

Why even supply results where the word does not actually appear on the page? You can’t tell me the technolgy doesn’t exist, otherwise that message wouldn’t appear at the bottom. That puts a stop to the problem completely. Now your site doesn’t show up for these types of bombs.

By the way, this is just one example of many that I’ve found.

]]> By: Luna Roy http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-131679 Luna Roy Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:24:09 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-131679 hello Matt, as we all know that you are basically known as father of webmaster guidelines and Google is following various ways to stop black hat techniques but i have still seen many sites which follows cloaking and doorway techniques by using javascript and yet their keywords are in ranking and we as a webmaster are competing with these sites. I just want to know that if Google can't crawl javascript then what they can do to stop these improper techniques. hello Matt, as we all know that you are basically known as father of webmaster guidelines and Google is following various ways to stop black hat techniques but i have still seen many sites which follows cloaking and doorway techniques by using javascript and yet their keywords are in ranking and we as a webmaster are competing with these sites. I just want to know that if Google can’t crawl javascript then what they can do to stop these improper techniques.

]]> By: Greg http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-112275 Greg Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:51:50 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-112275 Hi Matt, As you know, you didn't make any comment about the +950 issue that a lot of webmasters seem to experience. Can you please explain what it is and how a website fatally gets into this black hole? Thanks Hi Matt, As you know, you didn’t make any comment about the +950 issue that a lot of webmasters seem to experience. Can you please explain what it is and how a website fatally gets into this black hole?
Thanks

]]> By: The Dog Clothing Company http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-111366 The Dog Clothing Company Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:33:10 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-111366 So what's the latest update on Bush now besides miserable failure? So what’s the latest update on Bush now besides miserable failure?

]]> By: Amit Dixit http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-109216 Amit Dixit Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:04:57 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-109216 Well, internet is a big place and its not always possible for any search engine to keep tab on every “search word“, so you cant totally blame Google for all this mess….they always try to curb the problem and still deliver the best search results for any query…..But this “Google bomb” problem is a bit tricky to solve ……..they have to make a balance both in terms of scripting and the human factor, because this thing (Google bomb) may often happens unintentionally. Good luck! ------------ Spam protection: what is the sum of 2 + 8 ? = 28 :P Well, internet is a big place and its not always possible for any search engine to keep tab on every “search word“, so you cant totally blame Google for all this mess….they always try to curb the problem and still deliver the best search results for any query…..But this “Google bomb” problem is a bit tricky to solve ……..they have to make a balance both in terms of scripting and the human factor, because this thing (Google bomb) may often happens unintentionally.

Good luck!
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]]> By: Alan Walker http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-108787 Alan Walker Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:14:59 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-108787 Matt, If Google Bombing is created by linking from 20+ sites to 1 with a set of keywords and you are working to solve this problem, how will you deciede if it is a bomb or someone actually creating linking correctly, because the only difference between the two is the words used.. All the best from Alan Matt,
If Google Bombing is created by linking from 20+ sites to 1 with a set of keywords and you are working to solve this problem, how will you deciede if it is a bomb or someone actually creating linking correctly, because the only difference between the two is the words used..
All the best from Alan

]]> By: SEO Search Engine Optimization http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-107277 SEO Search Engine Optimization Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:48:39 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-107277 I was under the impression that their where a few that where affected and only a certain niche " Which coincidentally may of been a sensitive Topic " . Maybe all of those working for google that were getting residual income off of profesionally hand editing the results were affected. I may be wrong but I think " Lets Say " these sites that aquired +30,000 links very quickly were just Severly or heavily Filter because they " Hit a Tender Spot " Lets say the tender spot was the 30,000 usenet html over nntp sites for example and it sort of severly impacted googlers since they rank these MFA spammy sites owned by certain employeed googlers which had adsense on it. I think its rather unique at now they can't really ban the sites since they have to litterly slice their own throats. I think its rather funny since now they just hand job the link counts manually . Which is just as racist as seperating the blacks and whites or People that work for the search engines and just us other NGRS. I was under the impression that their where a few that where affected and only a certain niche ” Which coincidentally may of been a sensitive Topic ” . Maybe all of those working for google that were getting residual income off of profesionally hand editing the results were affected.

I may be wrong but I think ” Lets Say ” these sites that aquired +30,000 links very quickly were just Severly or heavily Filter because they ” Hit a Tender Spot ”
Lets say the tender spot was the 30,000 usenet html over nntp sites for example and it sort of severly impacted googlers since they rank these MFA spammy sites owned by certain employeed googlers which had adsense on it.

I think its rather unique at now they can’t really ban the sites since they have to litterly slice their own throats.

I think its rather funny since now they just hand job the link counts manually . Which is just as racist as seperating the blacks and whites or People that work for the search engines and just us other NGRS.

]]> By: lacrosse http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-106790 lacrosse Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:41:58 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-106790 Matt , can you please comment what Kill Bill said above. It is clear , that Google-bombs still exist. And Kevin, Placing low rankings - it is just a matter of time , bomb-link will go to the top of the Google Serp. If links are not so high ranked, it just means that a Google-bomb author will have to get more of them. Some guys who do comment spam may get lets say , like 100k backlinks to their sites. And they somehow put different pharma and financial sites to the top of Serp. I think it will not be difficult for them to create a Google-Bomb. Good luck , everyone Matt , can you please comment what Kill Bill said above. It is clear , that Google-bombs still exist.
And Kevin, Placing low rankings – it is just a matter of time , bomb-link will go to the top of the Google Serp. If links are not so high ranked, it just means that a Google-bomb author will have to get more of them.
Some guys who do comment spam may get lets say , like 100k backlinks to their sites. And they somehow put different pharma and financial sites to the top of Serp. I think it will not be difficult for them to create a Google-Bomb.
Good luck , everyone

]]> By: Kevin Katovic http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-102622 Kevin Katovic Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:15:32 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-102622 I think the google bomb effect could of been minimalized by not placing such high rankings on sites that scrap usenet. What you think about usenet over html Matt? I think the google bomb effect could of been minimalized by not placing such high rankings on sites that scrap usenet. What you think about usenet over html Matt?

]]> By: jonathan http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-102230 jonathan Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:34:00 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-to-reduce-googlebomb-impact/#comment-102230 so whats the latest update on presidents bush so whats the latest update on presidents bush

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