Preserved Topic: google bombing

Ya, I think everybody here knows what that is by now so I'm not going to explain it. But you may have noticed the link in my sig lately, although I actually haven't been posting very much at all lately. But the point is I was trying to help my dad's site, www.pbehmer.com get to be #1 on google for the search term behmer. It wasn't very hard because the word behmer is in several places in the site, including the url. But lately he's been having a bit of a battle with behmer.com, but he's finally #1, and hopefully he'll stay that way. Anyone else had any successfull google bombing attempts?

behmer - Google Bomb, for my dad's site.

Heh, my site recently dropped a lot. See http://www.scottandrew.com/weblog/2002_10#a000428

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Just had to drop in here and say: very nice site, Slime. I really like the look, and you've got good content to boot!

Oh, and I dig your music. I'm listening to September Heart right now... I dunno, I guess I'm a sucker for the genre. I don't really have much of an .mp3 collection (I usually just listen to Internet radio), but would you mind if I downloaded some of your songs to my hard drive?

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Sorry for butting in like that, maninacan. Best of luck with the Google bombing, but I have to agree with Slime's assessment above ("you've got to earn your keep").

Hahaha, no, that's not my site =) sorry for the confusion. I was wondering why you said you enjoyed my music =)

My site is www.slimeland.com . I just linked to Scott LePera's site there because he had said something about google that was a point of interest.

For the record, that guy's a *lot* better at Javascript than me.

I was wondering why you had two sites there... it all makes sense now. I think I'll go download his music anyway.

Slime: Thanks for that - I've been tracking the FAQ results for a bit and there was a recent jump in some of our rankings - I thought it was due to a reindex but a shake up of the algorithm makes sense too

Basically it seems to have taken some of the ability of bloggers to just Googlebomb certain phrases but if the terms are actually relevant it looks like the general principles work well (in fact even better now some of the power of bloggers has been decreased ).

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You know, this is a cool topic. I've been struggling to take control of my name on google for some time. Although I don't have a problem with people having the same name as me, it's hard to control which page hits #1 when you search for my name. That explains the page (Ben Swihart) you see when you go to my site now.... I'm mainly competing against my works' home page, which, when redesigned, I'll make sure is rigged to ANTI-bomb google! :P