PreInfo: I've recently been doing some reading on "Google Bowling"...and what to fear about it, so this is my question knowning a little bit about what it is. I've had a site for about 6 months (see signature). It's quite popular on its own, but I recently affiliated with a website whose homepage is a forum (so the only content is thousands and thousands of forum posts)...I pointed my forums there (they weren't too successful, so it was a positive move from a website standpoint, possibly not from SEO point of view) to his LARGE forum and now I have a text link at the bottom (rsboards.com) of the main page, and all of the posts that Google indexes. At what point do I need to fear get nailed for Google Bowling? (So far the results have been extreme benefits, no negatives). Any insight or wisdom would be greatly appreciated . Thanks, Travis
I was wondering the same thing. I have acquired a ton of backlinks for a site recently which usually ranks pretty decently. The site's fairly veteran and I've done this before (when I first started). I moved from bottom of first page to top of third for Google & Yahoo after all the links. MSN doen't seem to have negatively affected the site. Wonder what is going on and if/when a possible "filter" will be lifted.
Isn't google bowling when someone gives you links in "bad neighborhoods" in an attempt to get your website banned from google?
Oh, thats possible. My understanding was that it was when you gained too many links to fast or "site-wide" links...
Apparently Google bowling can include Java Scripts or “unâ€-sneaky Redirects to any site you want, or Mass Automated Querying of their URL in Google
The Google Bowling theory has been disproved. The experiment was done on one of the other SEO forums.