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Google Suggest Will Greatly Change Keyword Referrers

Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO

So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs.

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from MiriamEllis 319 days ago #

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This was a very well-written post on a subject that is sure to be of importance to any SEO. Thanks for sphinning this, Marty. This prompted my first ever visit to Jaan's blog. Good stuff.
Miriam

from aimClear 318 days ago #

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@MiriamEllis: Yes, I thought the post was spot-on.

from JohnHGohde 318 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Well you could have fooled me. If this has been in fact implemented by Google, it is mighty funny how I have never seen it? What I have seen are suggestions listed at the very bottom of the search results page. And, occasionally on the top of the page. I tend to filter all that stuff out anyway, because I have trained myself to ignore paid advertisements on the search pages. Ergo, I expect to see little to no impact, in the immediate future.

from streko 317 days ago #

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^if you havent seen it, then you fail.

from DarkMatter 317 days ago #

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this sucks! bye bye, long tail!

from 140Local 317 days ago #

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This will have an effect on long tail keywords, but not as much as you might think, is my guess. How many people go to the Google home page to search, I would have to think less than half. Every browser now has google built in. That browser already has suggest like features built in. So most people have been using it for a long time.

from incrediblehelp 317 days ago #

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@140local good point. I personally search using the toolbar in Firefox. I rarely find myself at the home page unless I working on some advandced link operators.