I second to that. I’ve had bad experiences from the so-called “SEO professionals.” There was also an instance where “unknown” links starts building up in one of my ranking niche. Is there a way for Google to find out links that are organic and those built to harm a competitor’s site?

I am registered for the conference next week and you are listed as evaluating Web sites. I would dearly love to have mine so evaluated. It is non-commercial though I have Google Ads for about a year now. Basically it is an unaffiliated learner-centric educational public service targeting middle school through returning adult learners. It is translated into 30 languages by volunteers, and has 80 interactive exercises developed by students for students. I ahve several goals: one to add the ability on each of the 3,000 or so pages to be able to tanslate with this Google functionality, another to give learners the ability to join groups in discussion groups by topic.

can you advise me on how to submit my site for this evaluation?

Thanks!

So “Google Bombing” is the process of attaching set keywords in Link Text (and Link Context?), with the aim of causing the destination of that link to rank for that term… right?

So how does Google figure out the difference between naturally occurring mass linking due to quality/popularity, and “Google Bombing”?
Based on content of the destination not matching the link text?
What if I’m happy for my site the rank for “utterly mallow” or “stupid bunny” ?
(Hell, not targeted traffic… but may get me some extra attention and some may be retained!)

Done by an algorithm?
So it’s programmed to spot negativity and undesirable terms?
So it’s programmed to spot terms that do not match the page content/context?
What about random gibberish?
Can I not rank for “thesdfoewrwemrw” without Google deciding I shouldn’t?
What if it’s a hip new term new to the world?
I get a ton of links because people think the sites ‘just, well, “herring” man! ‘ … and G decides that I’m not so “herring” and drops me for that term?

If thats what the public wants to do (the same public Google serves, right?) … then why remove that rather public vote?

Those rather silly aspects aside….
(Note: I’m not saying it’s not web spam! I’m actually inclined to agree – then again… the suffragettes were frowned upon, Martin Luther King was a trouble maker, and people knocking on doors raising money for charity are a nuisance… right?)
…
I’m going to second the rather fantastic question by …Dave (originial)…
Why is it that Google will go to such lengths for this sort of thing – but NOT simply drop shoddy sites from the Index?
You state it is against your ToS/Guidelines to manipulate the rankings etc… particularly with links – but I can do a search on buying links and get tons of results!
Sorry – but I fail to see the logic behind this form of thinking.

I think that was an error that was fixed before the week started. Found it on the Google blog.

Anyway, I think it is awesome that Big G has decided to fix the Google bomb issue. I just think that is it wrong to use such a popular medium such as the search engines to attack such a respected office as the presidency of the United States. I know that people will always find a way to go around the algo that detects it, but it is good that effort is made to minimize those.

As for those ranting about free speech, there are hundreds of other media they can use. Though, failing at it at times, I think Google is doing good in keeping its results bias free and objective.

They are organized attempts to manipulate the search results

So is professional SEOing.