Bombs Exampled: enter given search text, click on

• Weapons of Mass Destruction (Read carefully, this is an imitation 404 error page.)
• End of the Internet * (This site claims to be the last page on the World Wide Web.)
• French military victories * (Examine closely, it is a parody page neither sponsored nor endorsed by Google.)
• miserable failure (One of the more famous/infamous Google bombs and subject of numerous news stories: BBC, ABC News, IHT, Snopes...)

Google Bomb

The practice of using anchor text to make a page show up in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) under keywords that are out of context for that page. For instance, if you want your arch enemy's page to be #1 on Google for "absolute moron", you'd get as many people as possible to link to his page using "absolute moron" as anchor text. Google bombing can of course also be used to create a positive effect. In theory you could get your own site listed at the top for very targeted keywords using the same technique. Both these uses are, of course, aimed at manipulating search results and as such are spam.
http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/terms-google-bomb.shtml

anchor text

Also called link text, referring to the text that appears in a text link. For example, if I link to the Pandecta Magazine web site like this: Click here, then "Click here" is the anchor text for the link. Some search engines - notably Google - take anchor text into account when ranking sites. It is therefore beneficial to have keywords in the anchor text of links pointing to your site.
http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/a.shtml#anchortext See also hyperlink.

spam

A collective name for those marketing techniques that are intrusive, offensive and/or unethical in some way. A major characteristic is that it aims its message at a wide (often in the millions), untargeted audience - which it can afford because electronic distribution is very cheap. The most common form of spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail. In the search engine world, regular mass submission of web pages to search engines is also referred to as spam or spamdexing. The term spamdexing is also used to refer to all SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques that are deceptive or unethical.
http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/s.shtml#spam

* Included at the suggestion of Jim McCullars
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