A Google bomb (also referred to as a ‘link bomb’) is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google’s algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher […]

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Mirror websites  Hosting of multiple websites all with conceptually similar content but using different URLs. Some search engines give a higher rank to results where the keyword searched for appears in the URL. URL redirection  Taking the user to another page without his or her intervention, e.g. using META refresh tags, Java, JavaScript or Server […]

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Link spam takes advantage of link-based ranking algorithms, such as Google’s PageRank algorithm, which gives a higher ranking to a website the more other highly ranked websites link to it. These techniques also aim at influencing other link-based ranking techniques such as the HITS algorithm. Link farms  Involves creating tightly-knit communities of pages referencing each […]

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The first Google bombs were probably accidental. Users would discover that a particular search term would bring up an interesting result, leading many to believe that Google’s results could be manipulated intentionally. The first Google bomb known about by a significant number of people was the one that caused the search term “more evil than […]

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Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content. The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags. Keyword stuffing is used to obtain […]

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Page hijacking Page hijacking is a form of spamming the index of a search engine (spamdexing). It is achieved by creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites. Spammers can use this technique to achieve […]

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