For some reason google started sending me trafffic from places such as google.co.uk google.cz google.ca Before instant I usually only got traffic from google.com anyone else see these numbers in stats?
It's only about 40 new visits per day from the 40 I was getting already but it's still 14k visits more per year lol
Webpronews has an article on it - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/09/08/does-google-instant-mark-the-end-of-seo Watch the video with Matt Cutts. He thinks there is still value to SEO and it sounds like Google Instant isn't the end of SEO. I hope... My concern is that Google will continue to put the big sites always at the top, as they assume visitors would prefer those. Then we are screwed.
Guys there is not a huge difference in seo from this, the main change will be to long tail key words. Serps have not changed just a slight difference in how they get there. The sky is not falling chicken little. As far as traffic difference i doubt this would even effect you yet. Users all of sudden did not change their habits of search just cause there is stupid suggestion below!
An interesting way to see how its affecting your site is to track partial queries in Analytics. Here's a good post about it. To track Partial Queries, and their position in Google Instant, create a new profile and new filter: Cheers James
Google instant is just a new way of displaying result i really dont understand why that should affect the alorgithm
I have seen some partial searches and an increase in 2 word phrases. I'm getting 5 visitors a day from just "buy cisco" as usually the visitors were more polluted with variations of this term. I really have not seen a increase or decrease in traffic though. I'll take steady and sound any day even since May LOL.