Unless you are logged in then neither of these will apply. What percentage of everyday people actually log in when browsing?
Seem SEO industry is also going to be a thing of past. All Google wants is everybody to buy AdWords to get traffic. I thing other SEs like Yahoo and Live will seize this opportunity and keep search based results.
I am surprised that Google would want to show personalized results for different people based on their search history or other personalization searches. Most google users are numnuts and don't even know what to type when they need to find something. I would think this would cause some confusion with surfers, seeing different results at different times or on different computers. Imagine your Mom or Dad using their computer at work searching for something and then going home to search and they can't find the same site? They might get frustrated and just go back and use yahoo. I would be careful if I were Google. They are trying to make searching perfect in an imperfect world. Most users that use search are not that bright.
Good post, I don't see the need in any change for Google, they already have a 70% market share! Just not sure about the whole 'rating system'!
Thanks. Exactly! They are like a favorite restaurant that you loved their food and they decide to change the recipes on everything, trying to make it better. The next thing you know people are not eating there any more since they don't like how the food tastes.
I have doubts as to the size of impact this google update will have. Yes it will change things and for the good sites, for the better. So if your a good website you have nothing to worry about, if your a spam/low content high ads website then your screwed hahah.
I believe some of these factors are already beginning to effect the rankings in a major way. I've had a small niche website (around 50 articles) I built 6 months ago. Content was good, but it could be improved. My main page was ranking for 4 moderately competitive keywords. The SERPs prior to my website improvement were as follows keyword1 - position 15 keyword2 - position 21 keyword3 - position 60+ keyword4 - position 80 I've then done some more detailed analysis on the top competitors, market and keywords. I've generated a few more pages of content and written everything that users would search for related to this keyword. Then I have put most of these important pages into the most important areas which is the header navigation and main page in text content (I've linked to it). Within 3 days when google bot visited my page again, the rankings sky rocketed: keyword1 - position 3 keyword2 - position 11 keyword3 - position 20+ keyword4 - position 5 Now this is not a scientific test and doesn't prove anything for a fact. The results may well be the benefit of links that I've been constantly building along. Whether the positive effect of rankings is because of these onpage factors that I've done or link building is unknown, but was it really only a coincidence that the rankings skyrocketed just at the time when I improved my site for the user?
What does a site with 'good content' consist of ? - give some examples of Good content please, which google will like (regardless of future alogrthm changes)
Don't worry about that, as long as your content is user familiar not search engine familiar. you will be ok.
Thanks. Can somebody give some examples of good content? What does good conent consist of?/ examples?
Good content = 0% bounce rate. Examples: This thread, if you wanted information on Google Algorithms changing in 2009.
not really. If you use white hat SEO and have good seasoned domain and backlinks, you will still rank well
Great point, seeing as Yahoo is generally easier to rank in, this would have to be good news for us all surely.
I love it! I am not sure how far google will take personalised search and how it will affect se rankings but for me i think the big thing in the future is going to heavy "weighting" of sites with the quoted equation above and time spent on site. Kinda makes sense really sites where people spend a lot of time must be good sites, right? And if google is doing its job with its search results then the best should be at the top Can see everybody being told to put a video on every page to try and keep people there longer!
EXACTLY... everyone is going to encourage their visitors to upvote their site. I think the biggest thing to be afraid of is if personalized search becomes the next big thing. If you thought it was hard to rank all these years, just wait until this happens. I cant even see how new sites would be able to get off the ground if traditional is replaced with personal search. For instance, a SERP on someone's PC displays "upvoted" sites for the first 15 links, taking up all of page 1 and nearly half of page 2. How will anything else get noticed? This is really what I don't understand yet.
Time will tell but like anything word of mouth, banners and other forms of adverting on other sites will still get your site found by searchers which will then visit your site and if they find it appealing it will be in there searches so it will be more about curb appeal then anything else that will get your site ranked higher What will change is how SEOs handle there new role in the ever changing google algo ... thx malcolm