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

[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!

[Mehmet.Korukmez]

Google is going crazy with Exact Match Domain Names.I have searched for philips home theatre keyword (Google UK) and Google has returned top 3 results from philips UK and 2 other results from USA and India (.in and subdomain from .com).

I have been testing power of the exact match on the url,so far I have reached to the position 9 on facebook live keyword(UK) with facebooklive.co.uk (google) and Position 2 on Yahoo and Bing.

Not sure this is Google's interim solution until they find a better algorithm method after the Panda operation but this works!...

[philipjterry]

How does Google prioritize the what comes up in the auto-complete suggestions? By search volume or number of results or.......?

[MattFielding]

When it was first launched, Google suggestions came with a 'number of results' figure next to them, which disappeared soon after. Google Suggests is for ease of use, rather than for any SEO tactics, so they removed the figures.

[Robert_Nemec]

In one of cases we worked on Google suggested "Brand name - very harmful keywords". It was mainly thanks to "tabloid campaign."

We negotiated with the owners of websites and with a small legal help they deleted the pages where were the brand name and the harmful keywords. Then we use Google Webmaster Tools to inform Google about these changes (Webpage removal request tool).

After that the harmful keyword dissapared from suggesting.

Since than we use it successfully again and again. It seems, Google needs pages where are both brand name and problematic keyword(s) highlighted (title, Hn...).

[Tre]

• Tweet with a link to the Google SERP--requires something compelling.
• Buy CPC traffic (such as from a tier 2 search network) and use the SERP as the landing page. You can buy clicks for less than $0.01, but Google may be able to ignore all of the traffic from click fraud (which seems inevitable at that price point).
• Buy remnant banner space if there is a compelling reason that a user would want to conduct the search.

[bcmull]

Explain more please?

[aarondicks]

Yes please explain more! I'd love to learn what you mean? As in post URL's, or ask people to search for your terms?!

[aarondicks]

Good explanation - so this can in theory be used for deep linking in the short term?...

[aarondicks]

What is a mechanical turk?

[Cyle]

here is a link to Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome you can leverage it to do tons of things.

[Mr.Rangen]

I hope that works for +1 button clicks as well! Makes sense though if it truly does just reflect popular search behavior. Sometimes I think it would be better to perform keyword research on auto-complete over the finicky and inaccurate Google KW tool.

[zoicaremus]

• Check all suggestions for your keyword by using the alphabet:

targeted keyword a

targeted keyword ab

targeted keyword ac

• Extract all the questions about your keywords

• Write articles containing clear and straight to the point answers, especially for the questions that have elements that need to be remembered and start ranking for them.

• At the end of each article write this: "If you found the information here useful please bookmark this article or remember to search on Google for "this suggestion"

And voila, in time you will see more and more people remember how to search and thus raise the popularity of those questions in the Google suggestions. You did not exploit or inflate anything - besides your visitor's mind! Haha.

[JamesNorquay]

The best ethical strategy is to use offline media buys to influence the search pattern of users. Working in big agencies where you have combined teams working on various verticals it is some times hard to leverage SEO into the mix, yet once SEO is at the forefront of these campaigns you can really work wonders.

I have not really seen any killer examples of this in play yet, but many companies in AUS are trying these methods.

As Dejan SEO said you just need to get the right messaging in play.

Regards,

James Norquay

[anthony-305442]

I know that the number of searches required to get into autosuggest is quite small. Because my cousin's business whom I'm the webmaster for, is all over it.  And we get like 20 visitors a day...

[jest]

I don't get it, why would you want to influence Google search suggest/auto-complete? Can you provide an example of how you could get more traffic for this?

[BrianCrouch]

The last time you used Google and it auto-suggested a result, you saw those terms/keywords. That impression may not have been tracked, but think of how useful that could be for branding. You type in "ACME" and you see "Acme Rubberbands."
Now you've associated the product with the brand whereas you may not have before, and you may well have been prompted to navigate to that search query.

It's also relevant to reputation management. If you've got a negative suggested query, you'd want to suppress that.

[BrianCrouch]

Fascinating... If I had to pick the hardest kind of word to be able to manipulate on Instant, it would be a two letter verb! Maybe only a personal pronoun would be harder!