Comments for Virante Orange Juice http://www.virante.com/blog the Juice on PPC & Social Web Marketing Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:54:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Get Yourself Featured in New Google Search Plus Your World Personalized Search by Mark Traphagen http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/11/get-yourself-featured-in-new-google-search-plus-your-world-personalized-search/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Mark Traphagen Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:54:21 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=915#comment-1405 Chris, Funny you should bring this up... I spent several hours last night crowd source testing search results for the People and Pages box with some of my Google+ SEO friends from around the world. We came to several conclusions. For one thing, right now the box seems to be limited to a certain list of keywords. And for those keywords, it appears the results are not algorithmic, but rather come from curated lists that are shown randomly to searchers. I'm going to update this post to reflect that information. Based on an interview I read this week with a Google SPYW engineer, I think this "curated list" method is a temporary placeholder. He said that they consider SPYW to be very much beta, and that many features are not in their final form. When the interviewer pressed him about the alleged irrelevance of some of the People and Pages results, he replied that over time these would "improve," which I take to mean that eventually they will be more algorithmic, and tailored to the searcher's own social graph. My guess is that for now they are concentrating on using SPYW to try to drive more Google+ signups, and so they are "fixing" the People and Page's lists with popular names that they hope will entice people to want to be on Google+. In that case, it's not much different from their controversial "Recommended Users" list shown to new signups. Chris,

Funny you should bring this up…

I spent several hours last night crowd source testing search results for the People and Pages box with some of my Google+ SEO friends from around the world. We came to several conclusions. For one thing, right now the box seems to be limited to a certain list of keywords. And for those keywords, it appears the results are not algorithmic, but rather come from curated lists that are shown randomly to searchers. I’m going to update this post to reflect that information.

Based on an interview I read this week with a Google SPYW engineer, I think this “curated list” method is a temporary placeholder. He said that they consider SPYW to be very much beta, and that many features are not in their final form. When the interviewer pressed him about the alleged irrelevance of some of the People and Pages results, he replied that over time these would “improve,” which I take to mean that eventually they will be more algorithmic, and tailored to the searcher’s own social graph.

My guess is that for now they are concentrating on using SPYW to try to drive more Google+ signups, and so they are “fixing” the People and Page’s lists with popular names that they hope will entice people to want to be on Google+. In that case, it’s not much different from their controversial “Recommended Users” list shown to new signups.

]]> Comment on Get Yourself Featured in New Google Search Plus Your World Personalized Search by chris http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/11/get-yourself-featured-in-new-google-search-plus-your-world-personalized-search/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 chris Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:31:52 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=915#comment-1404 When I search major keywords for my topic, I see google ads in that column. I've tried showing "personal results" and it doesn't show anything. When I search major keywords for my topic, I see google ads in that column. I’ve tried showing “personal results” and it doesn’t show anything.

]]> Comment on Why are There Conversion Discrepancies Between Google AdWords and Analytics? by Mark Traphagen http://www.virante.com/blog/2011/08/02/why-are-there-conversion-discrepancies-between-google-adwords-and-analytics/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Mark Traphagen Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:48:51 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=579#comment-1394 Thanks for your comment, David. At least being aware of these inconsistencies is of some value, as frustrating as they may be! Thanks for your comment, David. At least being aware of these inconsistencies is of some value, as frustrating as they may be!

]]> Comment on Why are There Conversion Discrepancies Between Google AdWords and Analytics? by David Ewing http://www.virante.com/blog/2011/08/02/why-are-there-conversion-discrepancies-between-google-adwords-and-analytics/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 David Ewing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:46:25 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=579#comment-1392 I have been dealing with this issue in house. Another area is webmaster tools that doesn't seem to add up for search queries. The issue of 1st vs last click attribution is even more challenging when your efforts involve offline initiatives I have been dealing with this issue in house. Another area is webmaster tools that doesn’t seem to add up for search queries. The issue of 1st vs last click attribution is even more challenging when your efforts involve offline initiatives

]]> Comment on How Does Google “Search plus Your World” Affect Adwords Management? by franze http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/11/how-does-google-search-plus-your-world-affect-adwords-management/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 franze Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:33:08 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=920#comment-1369 lol:) thanks for the site i'm gonna check it out:) lol:) thanks for the site i’m gonna check it out:)

]]> Comment on How Does Google “Search plus Your World” Affect Adwords Management? by Mark Traphagen http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/11/how-does-google-search-plus-your-world-affect-adwords-management/comment-page-1/#comment-1368 Mark Traphagen Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:21:00 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=920#comment-1368 Franze, Well, that's another whole blog post, no? ;-) We did make one very interesting observation: that the effect can go beyond just results for those logged in to Google: http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/13/google-search-boost-extends-beyond-google-search-plus-your-world/ Franze,

Well, that’s another whole blog post, no? ;-)

We did make one very interesting observation: that the effect can go beyond just results for those logged in to Google: http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/13/google-search-boost-extends-beyond-google-search-plus-your-world/

]]> Comment on How Does Google “Search plus Your World” Affect Adwords Management? by franze http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/11/how-does-google-search-plus-your-world-affect-adwords-management/comment-page-1/#comment-1367 franze Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:07:37 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=920#comment-1367 There are many interesting possibilities when AdWords+ hits. anyway,what are the Examples of How SPYW Could Impact SEM? thanks in advance for the reply. There are many interesting possibilities when AdWords+ hits. anyway,what are the Examples of How SPYW Could Impact SEM?

thanks in advance for the reply.

]]> Comment on The Myth of the Relevant Link by David Ewing http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/26/the-myth-of-the-relevant-link/comment-page-1/#comment-1364 David Ewing Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:09:47 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=981#comment-1364 I think this ends up helping site owners who are willing to game links. Allowing sites to benefit more links regardless of relevance kinda makes it to valuable not to just get every link imaginable I think this ends up helping site owners who are willing to game links. Allowing sites to benefit more links regardless of relevance kinda makes it to valuable not to just get every link imaginable

]]> Comment on The Myth of the Relevant Link by Karl Thew http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/26/the-myth-of-the-relevant-link/comment-page-1/#comment-1357 Karl Thew Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:19:04 +0000 http://www.virante.com/blog/?p=981#comment-1357 I have to side with Miguel here. Though I think it's a great study and well worth researching, I think that using Wikipedia as the subject was a bad choice. Wikipedia is known to rank for a huge amount of keyphrases because it is such an authoritative site as well as the other thing Miguel mentioned. I'd be interested to see this same study on sites that don't have above average authority ranking well for a competitive keyphrase I have to side with Miguel here. Though I think it’s a great study and well worth researching, I think that using Wikipedia as the subject was a bad choice. Wikipedia is known to rank for a huge amount of keyphrases because it is such an authoritative site as well as the other thing Miguel mentioned. I’d be interested to see this same study on sites that don’t have above average authority ranking well for a competitive keyphrase

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