First off I'll post a link to article about what Google bombing is for you who aren't familiar with the terminology.

Secondly, has anyone tried it?

I've been doing it for a while and it helps my link popularity.
I even started a club and a forum for Google bombers

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Nope no google bombing here

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I use a low value KW combination in my signature file here...and yes it does help...but interestingly it seems to have hit a glass ceiling...gets to number 11 and no higher.
makes me wonder if google bombing only really works on uncompetitive phrases and then only moderately so.
Would love to think this was wrong....but not sure

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Is "Google Bombing" What is considered a "Black Cap" method?

No i would not have thought so.
It tends to spread over many sites each with their own link and their own anchor text so the impact on any one webpage is minimal.
It is possible that if the number of links grows very quickly then G will sandbox the site they are all pointing too ...but just for that link term.

The classic black hat issue is creating one page for the spiders and one page for us humans. That is the real no no.

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I've been wondering about this, lets say you have a popular forum and you add a genuine link with the link text 'seo services' for example ( . Now every new page that is created on this forum will give a new backlink. Innocent enough.

But if you start a blog and/or create a html page and post backlinks 'seo services' 'seo services' 'seo services' 'seo services' 'seo services' etc. will Google remove this from the SERPS results?

Uhm no I am not fringe extremist that use non relevant linking to diss our great President who jailed Saddam the madman who wanted to nuke USA and beheaded Al Quida. Duh.

Second, why p**s off Google with this crap? People complain and then google screws with their algo. Bad for business in my opinion.

I would not have though that this is blackhat. But suspect that G has a much better way to deal with it.

Very probably

a. If you have multiple links to the same page - only one will count

b. If you have multiple links across a site - such as the signature links on this forum...i believe that they all count ( but still only one per page) but if they are all on the same site i suspect that G will downgrade their value .

The other point is that multiple links might trigger
a penalty

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a search for Daniel Brandt would show my site ranking at #2 for his name. I think he is the guy who made up the term google bombing. after I google bombed Daniel's name (mostly accidentally) the idea of bombing a name was coined as name bombing by Danny Sullivan.

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Semantics-what everyone seems to be referring to is nothing more than pointing a bunch of KW anchor text links to a site. I think what he was asking about was the thing with the "?" in the link like the way that people got CNN's web site to rank for the KW "gmail account"

webspace, am I assuming correctly?

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