News Source: http://centuryhouse.net
Published: Apr 30, 2010 - 11:19 am
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News Source: http://centuryhouse.net
Published: Apr 30, 2010 - 11:19 am
Story Found By: charlotteseo 1119 Days ago
Category: SEO
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Isn't this brand thing like a year old or so? Aaron Wall talked about it ages ago.
Google just added the "brand links" this week.....
I didn't see until yesterday and been checking different client rankings all week
Ok I see what you're saying. I thought you were just talking about the rankings being higher for brands.
sorry if it wasn't clear.
the new 'brand links' show above the fold of the 10 organic listings :)
Sounds like it will be affecting lots of online business owners..
i'm seeing drops in traffic already on keywords that are ranking #1
Can you quantify that drop, Robert? What is the % drop and does it fall into normal variance?
when you're getting hundreds of visitors and now only getting almost 30-40% less per MAJOR keyword.....
i noticed it when i had a huge traffic drop and was wondering if the rankings dropped
then i saw it with multiple clients....then i saw the brand links
hopefully it's not going to happen in the services side!
I don't think it will affect much. Those links are not obvious and most people will be blind to them. The brands only seem to show up in very general terms anyhow and most sells do not come from head terms like that.
Google loves bitchslapping affilliates...
ogletree...it's only the beginning
I have to slightly disagree with @ogletree. While those links may somewhat be "blinded," kind of in the same way that most people don't click on the top paid listings and look directly at the top of the organic listings, I do think that eventually people may catch on to this new feature and look at those brands as synonomous as the general terms they search for and thus go directly to those.
However if the big brand is already ranking well for that head term then I would agree that it likely won't affect much unless their competitors weren't very visible and are now benefitting from this. I think it's going to have some affect, eventually.
What's truly bizarre is that this is the first time I can ever recall where clicking on a link in the main results area has NOT taken me off of Google's site. The first time I clicked one of those links it was the most bizarre thing, because I expected to go to another site.
Ultimately it's just one more change brought to us by the same crack addicts at Google who have been making the SERPs worse and worse with each new change.
Ultimately it's just one more change brought to us by the same CrackAddicts at Google who have been making the SERPs worse and worse with each new change.
Is this definitely happening? I have been reading that it is only in a test phase.
Has anyone seen comment from Google yet on how they are selecting the brands to return in that section of the SERP? On the tests I've done it doesn't appear that it matches the organic results.
@CIKMarketing Officially it's an experiment: http://sphinn.com/story/148630/