what is Google Bowling in SEO? List some disadvantage of it.

[JeniAnderson]

Google Bowling is the oldest and kind of Black hat SEO technique, it is mainly used for spamming your competitors website and decreasing the competitor page rank in major search engines. Google may penalize the competitor website against your website, when external ranking factor may get manipualed. It is also called "reverse" SEO.

[ranjanass]

Google Bowling also called "reverse SEO" is a technique to Manipulating the external ranking factors that Google uses to penalize a site against your competitors.

[RH-Calvin]

Google Bowling, also called "reverse SEO" is a technique, based on the simple fact that there is a second way of getting on top of the Google search results:- increasing your own rank -decreasing your competitor's rank. Google Bowling is an SEO technique that is capable of decreasing a competitor's rank in the Google Search Engine.

[TomClarke]

Google Bowling was an old issue back in 2009 and now it is popularly known as Reverse SEO a process of building an obvious link farming that links to the competitors websites aiming to ruin their reputation to the users as well as to the search engines.

[Manya Johnson]

Google bowling is a reverse SEO techniques to catch those links that are used to decrease its competitor rank and using unethical SEO techniques. Google penalise those site.

[ravidubey]

Google bowling: As Google attempted to control link-popularity exploitation by penalizing Websites that purchase link ads over the entire site, it also created the environment in which Google bowling came to be. As a form of negative SEO, certain greedy entities began buying  sitewide links for opponent sites, thus causing them to incur the Google penalty. Simple, evil and a very real practice.