Comments on: Google Suggest changes impact on poker SEO http://www.natarem.com/2008/08/27/google-suggest-changes-impact-on-poker-seo/ Greetings, Internets. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ex-Google http://www.natarem.com/2008/08/27/google-suggest-changes-impact-on-poker-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-7629 Ex-Google Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:40:59 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/?p=638#comment-7629 "This indicates that Google is doing some sort of intelligent ordering of suggestions but that the criteria isn’t necessarily about number of results." I would assume Google is ordering the suggestions by query frequency. Or at the very least that query frequency is a big part of how it orders its suggestions. “This indicates that Google is doing some sort of intelligent ordering of suggestions but that the criteria isn’t necessarily about number of results.”

I would assume Google is ordering the suggestions by query frequency. Or at the very least that query frequency is a big part of how it orders its suggestions.

]]> By: doggpound http://www.natarem.com/2008/08/27/google-suggest-changes-impact-on-poker-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-7627 doggpound Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:37:58 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/?p=638#comment-7627 A couple other things I found interesting about Google's release of Suggest: * Optimizing around common misspellings isn't worth nearly as much any more * Optimizing around mashed together keywords isn't worth nearly as much any more With "concert tickets" as an example keyword since I'm privy to some stats on a site that was getting a lot of traffic from the two points above -- they'll now get almost zero organic referrals for search phrases like "concerttickets", "concert tikets", etc etc because Google is correcting these. Not that a lot of people misspell the word "tickets", but since Suggest was released, this site is down about 3% on their overall traffic strictly because they lost a lot of these "tail" keywords, and they'll probably never get that traffic back from Google. A couple other things I found interesting about Google’s release of Suggest:

* Optimizing around common misspellings isn’t worth nearly as much any more

* Optimizing around mashed together keywords isn’t worth nearly as much any more

With “concert tickets” as an example keyword since I’m privy to some stats on a site that was getting a lot of traffic from the two points above — they’ll now get almost zero organic referrals for search phrases like “concerttickets”, “concert tikets”, etc etc because Google is correcting these.

Not that a lot of people misspell the word “tickets”, but since Suggest was released, this site is down about 3% on their overall traffic strictly because they lost a lot of these “tail” keywords, and they’ll probably never get that traffic back from Google.

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