Comments on: Inside Scoop on the Defusing of Google Bombs

By: stefanjuhl

stefanjuhl — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:45:27 +0000

bpcombs, yes as I wrote in my comment: “It appears that my typo optimization hasn’t been affected at all.” – meaning that I still have rankings for keywords that aren’t anywhere on the page (actually not even on the site..).

By: bpcombs

bpcombs — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:05:03 +0000

I too have written about the death of Googlebombs. My current theory is that Google has taken what amounted to an addititve algo (on-page factors *plus* off-page factors) and changed it to a multiplicative algo (on-page factors *times* off-page factors).

Clearly, you don’t have to have keyword stuffed links to rank (for non-competitive keywords), but it does seem that at least some minimal on-page usage is required (e.g. an on-page of zero erases any keywords coming from links).

Has anyone seen cases of pages still ranking for key phrases that weren’t on the page? If so, I’d very much like to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

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Google Drops Da Bomb On Googlebombing - TheVanBlog — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:04:41 +0000

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By: keemo

keemo — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:43:29 +0000

Ok so something like “free international calls” for actiontelecom.co.uk should be alright…but not fuckwit for Bush’s homepage

By: stefanjuhl

stefanjuhl — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:30:54 +0000

I’ve often solely used external links to rank for typical typos and misspellings. So when Google announced that they were “diffusing” googlebombs I feared they’d screw it up by being too strict about on-page factors that would match anchor texts. It appears that my typo optimization hasn’t been affected at all. I haven’t really decided what to make of this but I’d suggest that googlebombing might still be possible to some degree.

Note that the typos doesn’t seem to be detected as such by Google since it does not show the “did you mean..”.