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

[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.

[tomcraig86]

Perhaps some form of viral campaign will push up the searches for 'your keyword'... It's definitely an interesting topic!

[RobertChapman]

Are mechanical turks easy to use?

Any comments?

[Goetzman]

If I may be so blunt: What do you ask people on the mechanical turk to do? estimated costs?

[SallyO]

That's what I'm also interested in. What do you ask exactly to do?

[rishil]

I came in to add link to my post http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-–-an-alternative-theory but seems coule of people have already done that Thanks guys!

[PrivateNameAM]

Long tail anchor tags and (maybe) tags in clouds.

[SEOTeam35]

Press Releases and Google News- 5-6 releases a month in order to influence the suggest for a particular phrase and also mentioned in Google News for a particular article or content can help to include the keywords in the suggest.

[philipjterry]

I like to find root causes and reasons why events happen:

causes of....

effects of....

Or if it is complicated and needs simplifying:

whats the reasoning.....

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[jsturgeon]

Has anyone noticed a higher correlation among sites that use Google custom search? I know the queries made through custom search aren't necessarily using brand keywords, but I imagine that a higher volume of searches that include your domain must have an impact on autocomplete.

[CareerBliss]

So, Mechanical Turk is a an Amazon solution for a scalable workforce. You can have thousands of people around the world complete simple tasks for you. They are your brute force solution for getting work done. So, in the instance of manipulating suggested search, you utilize them to perform different queries other than company + scam in Google in order to, over time, knock that terms OFF of suggested search.

[philipjterry]

Just in case you have not read this already........

http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-google-instant-as-a-powerful-link-building-x-ray-51729

[MattFielding]

The other side to this is the fact that it's easier to optimize for the terms Google Suggest already gives you than to try to make Google suggest the terms you're optimizing for. Use it as keyword research - if you're optimizing a bracelets e-commerce site, you'll see Google suggest 'bracelets for men' and 'bracelets for women' - other queries will produce less obvious results!