How many links does it take to set up a Google Bomb?
That would depend upon how competitive a particular keyword phrase is in Google’s database. At a minimum, it would take thousands of links from thousands of different domain names to boost a Web page to the number one slot with most popular search phrases. You could not accomplish this with a link on every page of a 5,000 page site, because Google tends to count all the links from a domain name as a single link. You would ideally have to have a single link from each of thousands of web sites to set up an effective Google Bomb. Each link would have to be a text hyperlink using the targeted phrase. There is another keyword phrase that probably better illustrates how well a Google Bomb can work, even though this example is completely unintentional in nature. If you search for the phrase click here in any search engine the same web page always appears in the number one position, even though the words “click here” do not appear on the page. What’s the page? It’s the Adobe Acrobat Reader dow
