Comments on: Google Bombs, Google Slaps and Link Building

By: Camping Lights

Camping Lights — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:44:02 +0000

I think content needs to fit the purpose of the site - for example BCW has really improved its English grammar the last release and has got quite conversational so produces great content for some obscure terms

By: Article Submissions

Article Submissions — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:43:15 +0000

The slap normaly happens when you build too many keywords, or links to quickly! Google also looks at the sites your links are coming from. Google has gotten good at filtering out fourms and blog post, but they still have some affect as long as you have some high page rank sites pointing to you.

By: jfc

jfc — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:58:39 +0000

Hi Busby,

Varying anchor text is a good way to stay under the radar in order to avoid raising algorithmic flags that will put in you a queue for a visual inspection. If there’s something that the Google engineers don’t like when they investigate your site then you’ll get a penalty. As with anything involving human judgment this can be quite subjective.

Rumor has it that the Google engineers didn’t like Court’s ‘keyword sniping’ content and applied a manual penalty on that basis. I find that a bit troubling that they would do that on account of those articles alone. It’s not like he’s the only site in the world that talks about keyword research and link building.

By: Busby SEO

Busby SEO — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:04:58 +0000

very insightful post.
if varying anchor text is the answer, what do you think about anchor text by wordpress theme creator in they free wp theme footer. If they use same anchor on their free theme will they face big problem ?

By: brandon alan scofield

brandon alan scofield — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:26:44 +0000

I got some lessons google bomb, keyword and linkbuilding are related in complementary in serp

By: BobbyNy

BobbyNy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:02:25 +0000

The most strange thing for me is why google is placed “hacked” .edu sources at a high positions instead of my high quality site!

By: jfc

jfc — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:04:58 +0000

Hi Mauik,

Slow link building is OK for the most part because it does look rather natural. What Google really frowns on are 1000’s of links showing up quickly from the same small group of sites where the anchor text is in a highly competitive area like say, “Internet Marketing”. If you link on your name or some other low competition anchor you run little risk of tripping any flagging algorithms.

By: mauik

mauik — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:31:33 +0000

Hey jfc,

I’m new to link building, and I was just wondering, since it was never explicitly said in your comments or the post…

I’ve been building links naturally for a few months, and I’ve been using the same anchor text for all of them. Do you think that slowly building links over time, despite the same keywords, will be seen by the google algorithm as natural, or in your opinion would that eventually have the same effect?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:25:41 +0000

Very interesting theory that is probably very close to the truth. There is NO WAY that Google is going to punish a site for publishing something that Google would disagree with or even something that would harm Google. Perform google searches on “how to cheat google” or “google sucks” and you won’t be looking at blank pages.

By: Make Money

Make Money — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:48:05 +0000

Heheh, I like the way u used the people to describe it - but I’m scared - I’ll just keep varying my anchors