Hellkom #1 Spot On Google 'Telkom' Search

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Guys this has been done before in other examples and I am sure there is already an effort to do it, but I decided I would make it solid ground.

See more at noosh.za.net
 
It's sitting at #6 when I do a google search for telkom
 
How to...

We just need more guys to link to www.hellkom.co.za with the anchor text "Telkom" then Hellkom will take first spot in Google. This is called Google Bombing.

So anybody with a blog or website - please help!

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Example:
Telkom

Sample HTML Link Code:
<a href="http://www.hellkom.co.za">Telkom</a>
 
Try Google Ad Words...

Sure...will put it on my site... but you could also try Google adwords... you could get on the adwords list for 40c a click...
 
Adwords is not what we looking for. We want the top spot for Hellkom, so then if you type Telkom and push I'm feeling lucky it will go to Hellkom.
 
oohhh is that what "I am feeling lucky" does! ; )

My bad...in all my years of using Google I have never pushed that button! ; ) ...yes that will be really cool to get Hellkom lucky...I will get the link on a couple of my friends sites as well...
 
Spread it. We should try get this on joblog and cherryflava.
 
if you want to optimise your site for better page rank on google you must drop the frames, make sure each link on the site has its own page and that the search words that would be used to pull that information from google is in the title and links (meta tags and google are a waste which i see is hellkoms primary means generating keywords) also add alt tags to links with this format <a href="http://www.helkom.co.za" alt="Keyword goes here" title="keyword goes here">keyword goes here</a>

theres more you can do, get google to refresh the site more often and make sure the keyword is formatted in larger text within the pages somewhere, google weighs the importance of the words depending on its formatting and whether its linked or not, for instance a link is higher than normal text, bold test is higher than a link, a bold link is higher than both normal text or normal link and a bold link thats set to a large font is higher than all.

Also get people to link with text not images, or if theres an image add alt + title attributes to the img tag and more importantly get some sort of system where people can just include some java script in thier page that writes your link data (like google do for ad words) in thier page so you have more control and even better is give people a reason to link to your site other than "link to us because ytou hate telkom" like get a php script that gives people points per unique referal and then have a php script just download thier page per x number of points so that they get a hit or ten for sending you visitors, or list the top referers.

also make sure peopel link to the same domain, like you get people accessing sites from http://helkom.co.za and http://www.helkom.co.za, thats why now http://helkom.co.za has a page rank of 1 and http://www.helkom.co.za has a page rank of 5

the biggest problem you have, and the main reason why the hellkom page rank is only 5 (which is low) is the frames.

another major factor is you can have a million low ranking sites linking to you giving you an extra point in googles page rank system but 1 big site can give you 3 points easy, so my advise is get a big site to link to you as an affiliate on a front page.

telkom can get large sites to link to them dont forget so they can influence thier page rank alot, right now thier page rank for the new site is low but when the page ranks are updated in 3 weeks it will be way higher, so you need to compete with that, the most helkom could ever hope to get is a 7 (with or without money) where as telkom could easily get an 8 if they invested a little money into the situation.

Just drop the frames and change the main title and sub titles of each page to start
 
But if we get enough low rank links won't we still get to the top? That is how they got George Bush's homepage to be the first result for 'Miserable Failure'
 
thats different, we're talking about a page on a site that was already ranked 9/10 on google, 9/10 is HUGE, so google determined its page rank by saying ok a bunch of small sites linked to this page with this word lets give it a 4 and then it said OH WAIT this is on a highly ranked domain and linked from a page (whitehouse.gov) which has a 9 page rank, ok lets give it an 8. The main reason its there at the top is because that page is linked from the main whitehouse.gov page, the main reason why those keywords work however is because of everyone that linked with those words.

You could do the same with any high ranked site, like apple.com, get a thousand sites to link to apple.com with 'booya beotch' and it will no doubt be the highest ranked page for those keywords by the next ranking, however take some small blog somewhere and do the same it will only increase the page rank by a point or two

the page rank of the site you're linking to/linked from is the single biggest factor in your page rank for google
 
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So how about, linking telkom to a search of 'monopoly'?
 
that could work but you should probably choose a more unique term because you'll be competing with the game monopoly's website as well as various articles about various monopolies from highly ranked new sources. Also remember if you reach your goal you will want some press on the matter, so if you make a more degrading term it will grab the attention of journalists (whether in print or digital media) more than just telkom being ranked high for 'monopoly', for instance telkom in the number one spot for 'bad service and animal sex' would be sure to grab peoples attention (just an example, you can get creative)

also one last bit of advise, forums liek this are great, lots of people have websites here and would link as part of a campaign but get your own site up anywhere so people can contact you (journalists) and so you can tell the world why you are doing what you are doing, a sort of hub for this prank slash activism
 
Sounds good. Thanks for your help slimothy. So unless we hellkom.co.za gets rid of frames and moves to CSS or something, it will be hard. So I think we link Telkom.co.za to a term. Anyone got some suggestions? I will on a campaign website.
 
sorry one last thing, frames are probably used to make lives easier on hellkom, like they don't want to have to change every page if theres an edit to be made in the main header or something, perhaps its time to switch to PHP (very simple) or at the very least SSI (server side includes which will include common data into your page, in this case the header bit)
 
yep but its also because higher ranked site slink to telkom then would link to hellkom, for instance a partnership with some international tellecom would be sure to get them a link on the partners page.

but yeah, point taken, interesting side note, that is the old telkom ranking, google bar now says they have a ranking of 0 since implementing thier new site, I think they will get back to 6 when page ranks are tabulated again though
 
Okay so will it be easier to a Telkom as the number one result for a phrase or hellkom as the number one result for Telkom?
 
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