What exactly is a google bomb?

I read up on it, and understand the basics, and the example of “miserable failure”.

What I dont get is how that website is linked to that word? No one seems to explain how that exactly works.

Would it be like this:

“Miserable Failure” (being a link that is linked to the presidents website).

Is that how is works, and do it a bunch (BUNCH being the key word) of times on sites? Just curious. And no, its not illegal, google themselves even said so, just curious how it works. Thanks for any information.

You get a lot of sites (easiest through things like blogs) to link to a site under the description “miserable failure.” It’s pretty hard to bomb something yourself.

See, that is what I get, but…

how do you get that site “under the description of that word(s)”? It cant just by putting that word by a link to the site, wouldn’t it be by the way above?

I suggest looking for a book on search engine algorithms. Natural language processing is a diverse field. Essentually search engines make statistical associations between processed words and links. The tricky part is processing the words so that the engine is able to distinguish between different contexts of each word.

you have to have a lot of well ranked sites on google link to the website with the keywords you want as the link.

So for example, if you wanted to make charlie francis.com come up as #1 everytime someone searched for ben johnson. You would get a lot of sites linking to here like so.

Ben Johnson

So the first link that comes up on google is the site that is most linked to?

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Google doesn’t say the exact method it uses, but number of links is one criteria. But it rates a site’s links higher if the site itself has a lot of links to it.

Edit: This will save some time – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb