While many SEOs and webmasters are still living in 2002, it’s sometimes fun to just revisit old times for the rest of us. Take this article which details the burgeoning of blogrolling and and Google bombing.
Joining a Google Bomb Squad could let bloggers tap what’s become a multi-million dollar industry. It could even make life easier for the SEO industry - after all, as Google’s become more popular, their usual bag of tricks has become less effective. Google Bombs and Bomb Squads could be the killer app that SEOs have been looking for.
It’s not the birth of Black Hat SEO, but certainly a broader recognition that the Google algorythms could be manipulated.
BTW. The All Your Base link at the end of the article is 404ed. Here’s one that’s working.
4 Responses to “SEO Nostalgia - Blogrolling and Googlebombing”
Yes, Googlebombing has definately been a factor behind the development of Google’s algorithm. You could even say that they’ve made great strides because of it.
Googlebombing is still possible, however, and they’ve made the decision not to eradicate it altogether. Maybe Google has a little case of nostalgia. 
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I don’t think it’s nostalgia, I think they can’t eliminate bombing without irreversibly affecting search results. Maybe they will downgrade the power of anchor text that isn’t related to the page it is linking to, but they can’t eliminate it - (I would bet that) half or more of their algorithm is about the number of links and anchor text!
So IMHO Googlebombing will always be possible, but maybe just a little bit harder!
I’m definitely not saying that they should devalue anchor text in their algorithm, and I don’t necessarily think hand editing is the perfect solution either. But you’d think they’d be able to come up with some way to automatically catch and develue large quantities of completely irrelevant anchor text…
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Massive use of Googlebombs and other widely known manipulating techniques may actually be useful for Google users - it could force Google to work faster on fixing the bugs!
But that would also bring some (not so positive) attention to blackhat seo’s, making work harder for them. Oh well, separating the wheat from the chaff!