I have read alot recently about this new form of backlinking or Google bombing. I would like to make sure I understand this correctly.

Let's take an FAQ page as an example:
<a href="http://www.blahblah.com/blue-cars.html#Blue-Cars">Blue Cars</a>

So if I understand this correctly, you are merely adding the # after the .com or .html extension and then including your keywords at the end. As well, you would want to make sure you link to a page containing the keywords included in the link/url?

Has anyone used this so called #Google-Bombing?

Thanks..

Critter :)

>>so called #Google-Bombing?

Who calls it that?

First i've heard of it. It's just a url fragment, shouldnt really make that much difference IMO (note that's Opinion, i dont know this... ).

<a id="blue">

<a href="page.html#blue">blue jobbies</a>

Just normal html......

Nick

Hey Nick.

I have read alot lately that it can have a HUGE impact on rankings. Can give an enormous boost, but like you I see no evidence and cannot understand how adding an # can give that much of a boost!

Critter

Good anchor text is perhaps the heart of SEO - so any overt use of keyword-specific anchor text should be expected to give specific results.

However, whether it's for the main page itself, or a specific heading, you are still effectively link building for a specific URL.

Not sure it comes under the term "Google Bombing" - unless you are effectively building links with anchor text that absolutely does not relate to the content of the page being linked to. "Miserable failure" is probably the most famous example of that. If the linking is relevant it's just the link building aspect of SEO. :)

have you ever clicked a link and ended up in the middle of a page without having to scroll? It's called anchoring and it's been in html for a very long time it's nothing new. SEO's have used it to stuff keywords. Does it work? I'd have to say yes because I have a bunch of FAQ pages that use it that rank very well.

Does it drastically give you an atvantage? probably not but it does say this link <a href="faq.htm#blue-sheep" is going to a the faq right at the start of the topic of blue sheep.

In order to call anything a "bomb" you need a bomb-component - something that can explode :) The usual use of the term Google Bomb implies that identical links have been "bombed" on the Web. Adding a name reference using #name is hardly a boms - unless you are able to multiply it on thousands of pages and in that case it's not the #bname that makes it a bomb

as with what everyone else was saying.

index.html#topic is just a html URL that brings you to the anchor on a page called "topic"

This topic was discussed today at SiteProNews. Basically it is stating that the use of well-named anchors increases position in SERPs. It is a procedure most quality SEOs have been using since it is an obvious extension of anchor text.
For example: You have a FAQ page or any page with links to text lower on the page. The way it is done is:
Instead of having a number or single word, the idea is to use a system that will create more links for your site.
So if it is a link to blue widgets it would look like this <a href="#blue-widget">Blue Widget</a> where the link is and then the anchor tag at the appropriate spot is <a name="blue-widget"><a/>.

Just stopping by.

This is in response to the original post at this thread.

The above methods and other methods of appending relevance through links is described at the SEW thread "Change To Link Bomb Sign Of New Link Analysis Shift?"

Feel free to browse entire thread or jump to post #19. (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=700&page=1&pp=20)

References given at this post describe the technique in which special characters are used in the urls.

At this thread, Daniel Brandt also describes his Google bomb.

Orion