what is google bomb?

[marketraise]

Some web citizens for the sake of fun or SEO challenge have artificially influenced the ranking of the page. It is also referred as a link bomb. It is the malpractice of the HTML pages to be close in the ranking of the search engines. Google bomb is the effort of pushing the page up in the Google ranking by choosing specific link text.In other words we can suggest it as spam indexing.

[shubhangid]

Google Bomb .Its a new concept for me...

[Jenniferlinn]

A Google bomb is an attempt to bias a search result on Google by increasing a Web page's PageRank. PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important Google says a page is on the Web. Pages with high PageRank display early in search results. The Google search engine's proprietary search algorithm not only considers keywords when determining PageRank, it also considers the number of other sites that link to a page and the words used in the link description. A successful Google bomb requires that a high number of Web sites (often blogs working together) link to a specific Web page using specific words in the hyperlink. Enlisting high-traffic sites is especially important when creating a Google bomb, as their outgoing hyperlinks weigh more in Google's search algorithm.

The first Google bomb occurred in 1999. While the creators remain anonymous, the existence of the bomb was revealed when pjammer, a user on memepool.com, posted a question that asked what Google found to be "more evil than satan himself." Users searching Google for the term found Microsoft's home page as the first link in the search results. The term itself was coined by Adam Mathes in 2001, when he wrote an article about how he bombed the term "talentless hack" to play a joke on a friend, graphic designer Andy Pressman.

Other search engines use similar techniques to rank results, so Yahoo!, AltaVista, and HotBot are also affected by Google bombs. A search for "miserable failure" or "failure" on September 29, 2006 brought up the official George W. Bush biography number one on Google, Yahoo! and MSN and number two on Ask.com. On June 2, 2005, Yooter reported that George Bush was ranked first for the keyword 'miserable', 'failure' and 'miserable failure' in both Google and Yahoo! Google has since addressed this and disarmed the George Bush Google bomb and many others.

The BBC, reporting on Google bombs in 2002, used the headline "Google Hit By Link Bombers", acknowledging to some degree the idea of "link bombing." In 2004, the Search Engine Watch site suggested that the term should be "link bombing" because of its application beyond Google, and continues to use that term as it is considered more accurate.

[Deidradavis]

"Google bombs" are collective efforts to link to a site by a key phrase and artificially elevate a Web site in the Google search results for that search phrase.

In order for your site to come up first with the term "sodaplay help" you would have to exchagne links with other websites and use sodaplay help as the text to link back to your website.