Google Promote/Remove Buttons for eCommerce and SEO
Google have just added ‘promote’ and ‘remove’ buttons to their regular results. When you click one you will get the following text in a popup:
Customize your search results with your rankings, deletions, and notes — plus, see how other people using Google have tailored their searches.
Please remember that your SearchWiki notes will be visible to other users, identified with your Google Account nickname.
If you do a search for ‘buy bangles’ and you ‘promote’ next to a particular bangle website that website will move to the first position of your search results – for that exact search. If you click ‘promote’ for another bangle result and it will move into the second place on your results. You can move the second placed bangle website into first position by clicking promote on it again.
If you click remove on any promoted website it will return to its previous place in your Google search results. If you click remove on any un-promoted website it will be permanently removed from any results for that exact search.
The results are associated with your Google account so they will be constant across any computes you log in to with your account.
At this stage it doesn’t look like Google will be including the results from promoting in their results algorithm. I imagine the spammers would go to town on them if they did.
This tool is focused on improving the end users experience by letting them promote search results that they like to the front page for easy future access. From that point of view it is difficult to see how it improved existing technology like browser bookmarks or rss readers.
So from a seller/SEO/bangle promotion point of view it doesn’t seem like there is much advantage in getting shoppers to ‘promote’ your site.
While you are hear did you know that bangles make excellent Christmas presents?
January 27th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Thank you very much for your comment. I’m sorry that bangles didn’t make it higher on the list for you. But you have a great site and beautiful bangles on here. If you’d like, I’d like to add you to my blog roll if that’s okay. Please visit The Fashion Guru again for more fashion news, trends, and deals. Take care.
-Chanél, TFG Blogger/Writer