Comments on: GoogleBowling New SEO Method?

By: ben

ben — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:27:25 +0000

AHhhh ! Days of darkness for googles has arrived.That’s GoogleBowling. Optimizing pages to knock out competitor.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:30:16 +0000

ITA Paul, Google appears to be counting things offsite that could easily be monkeyed with by competitors.

By: paul williams

paul williams — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:09:27 +0000

Yes the problem with google is that it penalises websites for offsite activity – but how can they judge if this offsite activity is done by the website owner – it could easily be done by a competitor using black hat seo techniques to associate that site with black hat seo – and therefore getting it penalised.

By: ReveNews - Adam Viener

ReveNews - Adam Viener — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:01:55 +0000

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By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:51:47 +0000

They could be doing that now Michael. It makes sense and it’s logical and does prevent the ‘innocents’ from being sabotaged.

*Let’s Hope*

By: Michael Pedone

Michael Pedone — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:54:23 +0000

Wouldn’t a simple solution for Google be to simply count links that they are suspecting to be “un fair” ie, site wide text links ads etc, and simply count them as “0″ in their algo? In other words, instead of taxing a penalty, neutralize them as part of the ranking equation for that particular site.

If they can asses +’s and -’s for links, they certainly can also make links in question â€œneutralâ€?.

This way, innocent sites don’t get deranked and sites that are trying to build artificial link popularity will just waste their money on buying links. Problem solved.

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By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:40:38 +0000

I’ve been watching and tracking the term GoogleBowling. Here’s what I have so far:

At Trendmapper:

Trendmapper’s GoogleBowling Chart

What is Trendmapper?

Trendmapper is a tool to generate historical data from search engines.

Trendmapper contains a list of search phrases and will do a daily search for all of them. The amount of hits are recorded, and a chart is made on basis of the data that is collected.

It’s neat to watch the movement of the term. Also watching technorati:

Technorati’s Results

Only has 4 results so far (that surprised me).

Also Google search:

Google’s Results

Provides 42 results in the SERPs so far, and lots of shuffling around in the rankings.

Yahoo’s Results

Provides a whopping 138 results. Wow!

MSN’s Results

With the largest amount of results at 274!

So what’s the big deal about tracking all these results? It’s interesting to watch the timeline of the various engine listings, what pages are listed where and the difference in SERPs between all three engines. It’s a sort of ‘experiment’ I guess, an opportunity to watch a new term work it’s way into the rankings. The term GoogleBowling wasn’t in the SERPs on any engine just one month ago so it’s a great chance to watch and observe how the engines deal with it.

Maybe reveal a secret or two.