Archive for July, 2010
Vatican Google Bomb
A page rank 3 website has google bombed the term “vatican” through a a twitter feed.
In what seems to be the latest high-profile Google Bomb in a while, a search in Google.IT last week returned links to a website named upon child-abuse in the top search result.
Interestingly enough, the site that was being linked to was seemingly empty, with the exception of some cleverly crafted meta-information.
After some back-link analysis on the site, we found a prominent blog with page rank 3 and some 50+ pages had a twitter feed containing the link, and a reference to the vatican.
A screen shot of the top position is here
This demonstrates that black-hat SEO is still powerful way of getting your site to the top of the SERPs in the short term, however we are adamantly against the practice.
A search in Google IT today has shown that the false website is no longer indexed.
