Google Instant = Less love for Longtails? - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 09-23-2010, 02:49 PM

Interesting conclusion. Kinda fits in with the past few month's changes re longtails.

Article is at http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/...impact-on-seo/

Relevant portions:

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The impact on Search

Obviously the user experience while searching on Google will change significantly. The main target of this update is to make the search faster and more targeted. The user will be able to see the results as he types, he will rephrase more frequently and he will select more often the suggested terms. Certainly this feature will save lots of time and hopefully it will become easier to find more targeted and relevant results.
How SEO is affected?

Even if Google has probably not changed the way that evaluates websites, this update will affect the SEO. The popular terms that Google suggests will be selected more frequently and as a result those terms will be searched even more frequently. It is highly possible that users will select a search result before they complete their input and as a result the SEO professionals will focus more on the short tail keywords.

Another resource: Free Website Traffic blog

signupdamnit · 09-23-2010, 02:59 PM

Makes sense. On longtail you'll have to hope that the surfer gets shitty results so they will clarify.

FWIW, I am mostly longtail and am seeing more traffic from Google since they rolled it out. It might be due to something else however. I'd have to study and compare stats.

marketsmart · 09-23-2010, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by signupdamnit

FWIW, I am mostly longtail and am seeing more traffic from Google since they rolled it out. It might be due to something else however. I'd have to study and compare stats.

ditto...

i am getting more traffic...

i am finally back to the numbers and then some prior to the mayday update...

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u-Bob · 09-23-2010, 04:08 PM

from a user point of view I hate the new feature....

09-23-2010, 02:59 PM	#2
signupdamnit Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 6,697	Makes sense. On longtail you'll have to hope that the surfer gets shitty results so they will clarify. FWIW, I am mostly longtail and am seeing more traffic from Google since they rolled it out. It might be due to something else however. I'd have to study and compare stats. Last edited by signupdamnit; 09-23-2010 at 03:00 PM..

09-23-2010, 04:08 PM	#4
u-Bob there's no $$$ in porn Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: icq: 195./568.-230 (btw: not getting offline msgs) Posts: 33,063	from a user point of view I hate the new feature....