Did Google Really Fix Its Google Bomb Problem?
It’s an interesting concept. Bil Platt’s theory. He says in this article on SitePronews:
If you want to review what is shown above, all of the Google Bombs that are now gone had negative connotations to them. All of the Google Bombs that survived can be construed as having positive, or at least non-negative, connotations to them.
In essence, he is saying that Google’s algorithm change last month to do away with Google Bombs only affected negative Google Bombs, not positive ones. In other words, if thousands of bloggers were to link to the ScotlandSEO Blog using the anchor text “Best Website In The World” then when searchers searched for “Best Website In The World” they would likely find us in the No. 1 spot. Of course, we’re not saying they should do that. It’s just an example. But that is what Bill Platt’s is saying.
If Platt’s theory is correct then Google didn’t really fix the problem. They only fixed a part of the problem. Platt uses this Google SERP page as evidence for his theory. I think he could be onto something.
That means that if you own a website you could have all of your friends link to your website using a phrase of your choice and anyone searching for that phrase might find yourself at the No. 1 spot. But how reliable would that be? First, if it is a popular search term then there would be a lot of competition for it and you would have to have a lot of people helping you out in order to succeed. On the other hand, if the search term was obscure and received very few searchers then you’d be more likely to succeed, but who would know? If people aren’t searching for the term then it would be a moot point. Maybe that’s why Google didn’t see it necessary to fix that side of the problem. Still, I think they should.
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