In my playing around with blogs I’ve just found something interesting out about the Google algorithm.
The old technique of google bombing, using anchor text and a link to boost results for a certain word or phrase no longer seems to work. Indeed, it seems to work in reverse. I won’t trouble you with what the phrase was but a post I had was at number 41 in the Google rankings for a specific phrase. In the spirit of enquiry for which I am known (read, desperate for cash) off I went to boost that by employing the above technique.
The thing is, using it now actually degrades your results, not boosts them.
Interesting, no?
4 responses so far ↓
1 Tim Almond // Sep 30, 2007 at 11:44 am
There was something reported a while ago about how Google were going after major Google bombs such as the ones for Prescott, Bush and SCO.
Tim adds: Yes, the Prescott one (which, as you know, started here) has gone. That change in the algorithm seems to affect more than just those high profile ones though.
2 sanbikinoraion // Sep 30, 2007 at 11:45 am
Hardly surprising, really. It’s been a while.
3 Bruce G Charlton // Sep 30, 2007 at 3:17 pm
If it was as easy to manipulate Google searches as some people say, we wouldn’t all still be using it.
4 EclectEcon // Oct 1, 2007 at 3:12 am
So THAT’s what happened after I posted a piece titled “Britney Spears Crotch Shots”. Lots of traffic at first and then nothing.
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