The Great Google Keyword Spam Challenge
Today I will be attempting to keyword spam Google by the repeated used of the phrase “keyword spam”. The aim of this entry is to see how long it takes a Google search of “keyword spam” to return this entry first using gratuitous “keyword spam”. Then I will probably delete it, because I know that the amount of keyword spam involved in this entry will cause other spam and we only want keyword spam.
Now one of the first keyword spam examples on Warwick Blogs exists in this very blog, it’s an entry called “I hate ntl and I hate ntl and I” etc etc (itself being an example of keyword spam) which inadvertently caused this author to suddenly become the top hit for a variety of anti-ntl phrases, so popular in fact it beat all the best ntl hate sites.
The reason Google liked the entry was for three reasons. Firstly, the Warwick second-level domain (.ac.uk) is noted as being academic, like the American counterpart .edu. Consequently search engines are going to rate highly what they see on their pages – and that includes Warwick Blogs, being part of the .ac.uk domain. Now you don’t even need to keyword spam to get to the top, indeed poor Mat Mannion became the victim of a teenage witch-hunt after remarking his dislike of Tabby Callaghan’s signing. The more the kiddies came and mentioned the word “Tabby”, the more Google saw it; if you like, it was keyword spam not by the author, but by the readership. They themselves continued to keyword spam the entry higher and higher into Google’s good books, and that’s links in to the second reason: having the same phrase repeated numerous times (which wasn’t done for keyword spam, but for comic effect) makes Google think that the entry is more and more about its phrase i.e. hating ntl.
So having used “keyword spam” in the title as a form of keyword spam and then repeating this “keyword spam” phrase at every opportunity in the entry, I’m hoping that I can keyword spam this entry on keyword to the top of the keyword spam charts. What really becomes interesting is how quickly I can get Google to put my keyword spam entry at the top of the pile. If I can do it with the keyword spam of Onken, I can do it with the keyword spam of keyword spam!
Tuesday: not in the top 100, but I doubt Google has updated me yet.
Wednesday night/early hours of Thursday morning: haha! already at #12!
Thursday night, and it’s up to 8th by my latest search. Don’t know how people are finding me higher, maybe they are searching for the phrase “keyword spam” rather than two keywords keyword and spam separately. That would be cheating, and make it far easier to keyword spam!
Saturday night now, and I’m now down to a lowly #17th. Perhaps I’ve overdone the spamming of keyword spam! :(
Monday afternoon, and I return to #8. So no success for the keyword spam of keyword spam to the top of Google in a week, but I think with a bit of luck and a lot of keyword spam I can go higher.
09 Jan 2007 19:50
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[Skip to the latest comment]Eleanor O'Donnell
You may now get Tabby bashers too Luke! haha.
09 Jan 2007, 20:49
Comment keyword spam comment. Fool!
09 Jan 2007, 20:54
Thankfully I think with all the “ginger cat” keyword spam in Mat’s blog Google will go to his first, even if I tried to keyword spam Tabby Callaghan.
09 Jan 2007, 22:13
Mathew Mannion
Watch out, too high a density of keywords and your Google Juice will turn sour
09 Jan 2007, 23:02
Helen Ryan
Is all this keyword spam business the reason why I keep getting members of the military find my blog and commenting? cool.
10 Jan 2007, 10:02
WB keyword spam seems to affect just about anything and everything. Even keyword spam is at the moment!
11 Jan 2007, 00:25
Justboots
You do realise that there is five million ninety thousand results returned for ‘Keyword Spam’ :)
11 Jan 2007, 10:31
Holly Cruise
Ke-ke-ke-ke-ke… Keyword spam. I love how this shows up the slightly unreliable nature of Google. Yes, it is the best by a long way but you really can abuse it sometimes. Like now. Woo!
11 Jan 2007, 12:33
Holly Cruise
And Luke, for the search “Keyword spam” you are now 5th!
11 Jan 2007, 12:34
Tom
but first for google uk!
11 Jan 2007, 12:42
Ah it’s that pesky Wikipedia entry on keyword spam which is preventing me being top search for keyword spam.
11 Jan 2007, 14:07
I’m stuck on 8, but given what is currently number 1 I think that if I correctly use keyword in a few places and concentrate less on the keyword phrase “keyword spam” I might be yet be able to eke my way to the top of Google for keyword spam. Of course I could do with a few more keyword usages of keyword spam…
06 Feb 2007, 15:40
Mathew Mannion
Up to fourth now for Keyword Spam, which is quite amusing :)
07 Feb 2007, 16:26
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