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Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
I have come across quite a few long tail, non-competitive search queries as of late that have actual individual utterances from platforms such as Twitter and FriendFeed in their top ten results. "
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Actually Google has been treating social bookmarking sites like this for years.
Digg, Propeller, Mixx and Sphinn have all been showing up in Google for years especially under niche terms. In fact, I can dominate all 20 results under a niche term with social media. When you Google certain terms I am tageting I will be all 20 top results in every different form of social media.
Many people ask me "Why would you want to be all 20 results, isn't #1 good enough for you?" Sure, #1 is great but I just drove 19 of my competitors out of the results, eliminating the competition.
Howie Schwartz has been doing this for a while too, I am just a little more organic whitehat than others are. This strategy works great, just don't let anyone sell you on using submission software for social bookmarking or use socialmarker.com. That is not the way to do it, that would be spam and Google can see it.
In fact Charles Heflin has been publishing the "Footprint" series lately on the fact Google knows spam.