Google Bowling 2.0

[Kenny]

Google Bowling 2.0 is buying your competitor links then telling Google

Are your competitors ranking just above you in the SERPS and it looks like there is no way of catching them? Want to effectively push them out of the search engine results? Maybe you heard that Google Bowling was over. Wrong, think again.

It’s time for Google Bowling 2.0!
Google Bowling 2.0 is all about buying links for your competition. Matt Cutts has made Google Bowling very easy for you to accomplish. Matt Cutts wants you to do this! Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s anti-web-spam department. This makes him the top dog when telling Google who is using paid links to rank higher than YOU. Why not help him out? Go buy your favorite competitor a few hundred backlinks on your local newspapers website. Then send a friendly message to Google and let them know just how nasty your competitor is. Does Google still promote their "Do no evil!" slogan?

If you can’t find a good newspaper selling sitewide links, go to Digital Point Forums, there are always a few link spammers selling sitewide links there. Mention this post to receive a bulk discount!

Have fun with this endeavor as it will surely bring you success for a few days. That is till someone reports you for doing the same thing once you are now in the #1 chair. Because once you are in the Hot Seat everyone is now making you the next target.

My suggestion, go for the longtail and stay under the radar of your competition. Avoid using Negative SEO as it will only make you a person of interest. Most important of all don’t take this post too seriously.
Source:
http://www.alistseo.com/36/google-bowling-is-all-about-buying-links/

This is a joke... sorta.

Cy

 

[Keral_Patel]

Sometimes in life I do believe in "As you sow so shall you reap"

That is why I leave this kind of people on loose. The point is a good one and I think that one should be addressed by google itself.

They should not try and catch the link sellers or buyers. They should just change something in their algo and that will save lots of work hours and even stop this kind of mess.

Sometimes when the person who sowed it doesn't gets the time to reap it. Then it is our duty to reap it and give it back to him. :D

It is just a battle out there. But if google is the battle ground then I think the ground staff should atleast take care that the rules are perfectly followed. Not just any complain that this site is doing so and so.

When there is a war at this scale then thousands of people are stabbed in back and the google referee is not even knowing what is happening. They just want to set some examples and put the fear in the minds of people doing this. Lets hope I am just one person ranting about it and google do have people hired with nice brains so they will eventually come up with something concrete and fool proof.

 

[whitebark]

I posted on this a few weeks back - it's already happening(more people complaining of sudden drops off search pages) and it's wholly not unexpected. Put a little link in webmaster tools asking for finks and this is what you get - blackhat SEO taking full advantage.

"We also welcome information from our users. If you know of a site that buys or sells links, please tell us by filling out the fields below." To a blackhat SEO operative that says, "Please buy links for your competitors and report them here. We, like most things Google, won't tell you exactly how we do things, but if you can gain an edge go ahead and try it. Your competition will never know what happened!"

Unless they now employ hundreds of paid employees to filter through each submission and REALLY investigate how can they know paid from not? How can they tell the difference between a link to a site I place on a site because I really like it but don't use rel=nofollow, and a paid one? How can they tell a paid link from interlinking between one's own websites? And worst of all, how can they tell blackhat purchased links from not?

I get what they are trying to do, but they are going about it all wrong. Give Blackhat SEO an opening and they will take a mile.

Sinking someone's website is really easy with google now. Buy links and report them for it. Spam their link all over the internet using freely available tools - or buy that service as well, and watch their rankings fall. Employ or purchase click-bots and destroy their adsense account.

Yahoo and MSN need to close the gap with google and bring some sense of sanity back to the web. I normally stand by Google but sometimes they just don't think things through or leave holes to be taken advantage of.

 

[Keral_Patel]

This is not just hitting the webmasters but in sometime it will be hitting google itself.

Their Index which they are so proud of will be having the sites on top which shouldn't be on top. But they banned and kicked all the good ones just because of this type of reports.

This is what I wanted to tell that yes we do get traffic from google but has anyone ever thought why google is getting the traffic. It is getting because there are good sites out there and they do have really good content. Which google points their visitors to.

If the Index itself is manipulable then don't know where this will end.

Sometimes they say that they don't do any manual tuning in the SE index. They also say that there is no way a competitor can play tricks. But this report thing is not just good.

That is why I have stopped paying attention to this kind of things that does eventually come up.

Now see this one. It is so easy to find this things.

I just looked up and saw the ads here on NP itself.

Then I did searched for that keywords and tried to see if it is being counted as the crawlable content and if it is effecting the SERPs

And here it is:

Page that was found and was cached:

You can call it whatever you want. But yes this is for sure that this result is ranked very high because that ads were showing on a Good page. So they can rank a keyword high because of a Higher authority page showing the ads.

 

[shockie]

the kids over at google really need to figure out a way to deal with this bowling issue, along with the proxy hacking situation. they need to maintain their core service as a search engine, and all these problems can add up to be a serious threat to them.

 

[Zurvan]

If you believe what Google says, they aren't banning sites for buying or showing paid links. They are devaluing those links for ranking purposes.

All advertising on the internet is through links. Most advertising is paid, and Google understands that. You're still allowed to buy links to advertise. They're just not going to let you pass link juice through those links. If you paid for it, and Google finds out, then no link juice. But you still get the advertising (hint: that's the point of links in the first place).

The problem is that so many sites have hundreds of paid links, and no real ones, and they're getting hammered as Google adjusts for that. That's too bad - either make something worth linking, or find another source of traffic.

Also, the reports are supposedly a way for Google to check their algo, to compare what gets reported to what they find on their own.

But yes this is for sure that this result is ranked very high because that ads were showing on a Good page. So they can rank a keyword high because of a Higher authority page showing the ads.

Nick - are you saying that having Adsense ads on a good page is good for organic rankings? I'm not sure I understood your post.

 

[Keral_Patel]

I was telling that if I had a page or a small site which was targetting XYZ keyword.

Then an ad with XYZ in it being rotated on a High PR or authority page does affects my Small site's rankings in SERP's.

So for example if I was bound to be on #4 then I am now #5 because one page which was showing an ads with that keyword is now on my place.

 

[Zurvan]

I was telling that if I had a page or a small site which was targetting XYZ keyword.

Then an ad with XYZ in it being rotated on a High PR or authority page does affects my Small site's rankings in SERP's.

So for example if I was bound to be on #4 then I am now #5 because one page which was showing an ads with that keyword is now on my place.

An Adsense ad has zero effect on your PR or SERP rankings. The link doesn't even show up in the source code, thus can't be spidered by the engine.

A regular link advertisement does affect your PR or SERP rankings, unless Google decides it's a paid link - in which case they discount any link juice it would normally pass, so that it has no effect on your ranking. Google wants links to mean what they used to (this is a good site) to help their SERP's, while still allowing webmasters to make revenue from showing paid links, and other webmasters to advertise with paid links.

 

[Keral_Patel]

I was telling that that ad wouldn't be mine. It will be an ad of some other site trying that keyword. Now if he wants to rank for that keyword then he has to Optimize the site for that XYZ keyword to outrank me.

What happens now is that he pays up for adwords and he can target that keyword from other pages which are High PR and authority pages. Now I am outranked and the Visitor which was meant for me is now going to see that crawled result in SE index above my site's listing and he is going to go to that page. At that time the ad might not be there and if it is then he will be clicking that ad and will be landing on my competitors page.