Tactics to Influence Keywords in Google's "Search Suggest" / Autocomplete in Instant?

[legalseo]

I have used the mechanical turk in a reputation management scenario to help move a negative search suggest down, down, down by having other searches conducted by turks, such as "brandname coupons", "brandname reviews". (The term was "brandname scam". ) Only a set number a week were tasked and always a different combo of terms. The actual mechanical turk task contracted for was at face value legit - to search for the particular set of terms and note where in the top 10 search results the "brandname" domain fell.

[CharlesMontgomery]

If you type -is - in google (that is is with a space after it) you will see a phrase "Is Kevjumba A Heterosexual Bear Wrestler"

Here is how that phrase made it to suggest: http://www.viralblues.org/is-kevjumba-a-heterosexual-bear-wrestler-an-only-child.html

[reegs]

Thanks for sharing that charles!

Although I just checked it out and this phrase "is kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler" seemed to have went viral, appearing on titles of tons of different domains.

[Hondaspeder]

Haha funny, thanks for the link!

[Syed1]

The easiest way is the black hat way using proxy/ips. I am not sure if it can be necessarily labeled black hat but anyways...

The clean way is to have a direct link to google with the search terms - put it on high traffic pages and ask visitors to click it and find your website.

Firstly you are increasing the search count and also the likelyhood of it getting included in the Auto Suggest list of google.

2nd, you are getting your visitors back.

You can make it interesting like a treasure hunt, give them a discount or a freebie.. to go to Google and be able to find their back.

[seo_ploom]

Please forgive me (I'm new to this), but what do you mean by tactics to influence keywords in Google's Search Suggest" / Augocomplete in instant?  And how does it help your seo?

[abernhardt]

That's a really smart idea... I wonder if the direct link to Google with the search phrases helps at all even when the link isn't clicked on and a search is performed.....

[Blargh123]

This is more theoretical, talk on methods to influence google search suggest, (think auto complete which now will assist SEO alot more with more users using instant search)  We want google to automatically suggest keywords that we have influenced.

[DanDeceuster]

When leaving blog comments, isntead of trying to get a link out of them in any way, simply be a normal person, give your opinion of the blog post, then encourage readers to search something. If you have coupon sites this works great because you can comment on a blog in your industry, then tell anyone if they are going to buy the product to be sure to Google for some coupons first, because they can save money that way. No link, no brand mention, but you get more search traffic for a phrase.

[seo_ploom]

Thank you, that makes sense.

[saibose]

I got an interesting post from one of the bloggers: SEJ shared this on facebook.

http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-–-an-alternative-theory. Worth a read

[Netmasons]

Pretty interesting article, guess I must have missed it despite having liked them on FB.

[andresgmontero]

Very interesting indeed, will be nice to make a few experiments

[PUnitt]

Rishi Lakhani wrote this earlier today on the subject, great blog post- http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-%E2%80%93-an-alternative-theory

[ericwagner]

First, you have to decide what type of content you're trying to simulate. A breaking news story may get 1,000,000 searches in a day while the previous day that search might have gotten 1000. A major product will get fewer but more evenly distributed searches. Decide which you want before you do anything, or you'll be found manipulating google - and they don't like that, for some reason.

[HiveDigitalInc]

Search Suggest is also dependent upon the volume of content related to those keywords. Remember, the original search suggest provided you with data on the number of search results available for the phrase. We have seen marginal improvement with just massive content syndication and no click manipulation.

Finally, whatever you do, it will have to be sustained. Suggest is updated alongside whatever keyword metrics Google is using. You can't simply hope to run a single mechanical turk campaign and then permanently influence the results.

[ChrisMacNaughton]

I just went to that link and it looks like it's broken, holding page for GoDaddy loads.

This page describes it and seems to be working... http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/01/is-kevjumba-a-heterosexual-bear-wrestler-he-wants-the-internet-to-think-so.html

[Goetzman]

Isn't Google smart enough to have a list of common proxies and not count them for any changes?

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[Syed1]

There will always be some people who can get around that. Fresh proxies, Private proxies - by the time Google has those proxies (if at all) it in their "list", they come with a fresher list of new proxies. Cat and mouse chase.. except there is one cat and too many mice. Anyways, its not something I would recommend.