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

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    • tomcraig86
      tomcraig86 last edited by

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

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      • RobertChapman
        RobertChapman last edited by

        Are mechanical turks easy to use?

        Any comments?

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        • Goetzman
          Goetzman @Dr-Pete last edited by

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

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          • SallyO
            SallyO @Goetzman last edited by

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

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            • rishil
              rishil last edited by

              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!

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              • PrivateNameAM
                PrivateNameAM last edited by

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

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                • SEOTeam35
                  SEOTeam35 last edited by

                  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.

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                  • philipjterry
                    philipjterry last edited by

                    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.....

                    in a nutshell <then the="" first="" two="" letters="" of="" what="" you="" want="">(this method seems to work well back to front</then>

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                    • jsturgeon
                      jsturgeon last edited by

                      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.

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                      • CareerBliss
                        CareerBliss @Goetzman last edited by

                        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.

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                        • philipjterry
                          philipjterry last edited by

                          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

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                          • MattFielding
                            MattFielding last edited by

                            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!

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                            • Mehmet.Korukmez
                              Mehmet.Korukmez last edited by

                              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!...

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                              • philipjterry
                                philipjterry last edited by

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

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                                • MattFielding
                                  MattFielding @philipjterry last edited by

                                  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.

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                                  • Robert_Nemec
                                    Robert_Nemec last edited by

                                    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...).

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                                    • Tre
                                      Tre last edited by

                                      • 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.
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                                      • bcmull
                                        bcmull @ThomasHgenhaven last edited by

                                        Explain more please?

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                                        • aarondicks
                                          aarondicks @bcmull last edited by

                                          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?!

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                                          • aarondicks
                                            aarondicks @Blargh123 last edited by

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

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