I heard something about this ages ago.. Where people all click a link on a site and then that site suddenly appears at ranked 1st for a keyword or something like that. I know it won't always rank 1st but quite high if lots click it. I think people did it when they wanted george bush's page showed up when failure was searched, can anyone tell me more on this or am I talking rubbish?
yeah.. link to google aith porn in link text and soon google will aprear on the front page when searching for porn.. it has been done once as I recall
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=failure&btnG=Google+Search people clicking links has nothing to do with anything.
it is not illegal,,you can't stop ppl add link to your site.. you can use it to promote a site...only if you have the resource to do it
Anyone could use it, but ussually it are groups of people using the same anchor text to link to some page.
actually clicking a link from google's serps can give the specific link better rank in the next update, i don't know much about it but the clicks count.. it's about the relevance of the link (google cares about it)
google bombing doesn't work AS well these days, but it works. Oh, and of course it's not illegal. What would be illegal about getting backlinks with anchor text?
I don't know about all of that. If qucikly is a 6 months to a year to slowly roll out an algo that makes little difference, then yes you are correct.
I've got 3 year old doorway pages that are the spammiest stuff you will ever see that STILL bring me traffic in google (I had forgotten about most of them, luckily google hasn't)
There is one very popular keyword "failure" for which Bush's biography is ranked first. Its an example of google bombing.