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Slashdot Google Bombers?

Posted by Cliff on from the tweaking-the-results-to-your-liking dept.

muirhead asks: "As a proud new dad, I made a web site to share some baby photos. Having seen this article about Google Bombing, I gave it a go and posted comments to Slashdot, Newsforge, Kuro5hin and LinuxWorld. Some of the pages have a high enough PageRank to show up as links into my site. Now, there are quite a few phrases that I can tell folk to google, and know my site will show top of the list. My favourites are Ruby Orange and Mutley Sleeps, but of course, I want more. What other free sites and means do you know of that I can use to further increase the visibility of my website?"

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  1. You searched for link:www.mutley.uklinux.net/... by MattCohn.com · · Score: 5, Informative
    You searched for link:www.mutley.uklinux.net/.

    Please tell us what specific information you were seeking. Also tell us why you were dissatisfied with the search results.
    I would like to point you to this story on slashdot, a popular technology news site, posted by the author of the website above. It discribes how he abused the page-rank system in order to have his page score high on unrelated searches.

    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?si d=03/09/03/2211236&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=164&tid =185&tid=95&threshold=-1
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  2. way to go jackass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go ahead and fuck up google's search results even more to make it worse for those of us that actually use it to look up things that are useful.

    Why can't you just give your friends a URL like most normal people would? Hey, while your at it, you should just buy one of those cd's with millions of addresses on it, and then send a mass mailing telling everyone what to google for to find your site.

    Idiot.

  3. click here by austad · · Score: 4, Informative

    Click here to add this guy to your Foes list.

    How did this ever make the frontpage of Slashdot? Thanks for helping screw up the one decent search engine, jackass.

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  4. This isn't Google bombing by Shiifty · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google bombing is a co-ordinated attack to increase rankings, usually by blogging. It requires many different sites. Simply posting comments to websites with your website in your .sig or something isn't 'bombing'. Try posting your website to relevant Usenet groups to increase exposure. http://groups.google.com