Comments on: Google Categories - Changes to Competitive SEO http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/ SEO for All Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: The Google Buffet | SoloSEO Blog http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-3522 The Google Buffet | SoloSEO Blog Wed, 30 May 2007 20:50:22 +0000 http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-3522 [...] As business owners, we should all be grateful for this development, and the simplicity of categorized search for searchers. Now we will be not have to compete with Wikipedia and other unrelated sites for a top search position in our marketplace, we will again be competing against our competitors, and that is something we already do and understand. The key is going to be making sure our site relays our business purpose and information properly to the search engines, so our sites can be categorized accurately. Essentially this means succinct SEO will become more important, as it will help us get our sites in front of our “pre-screened” clients. If the search engines don’t know what we are about, they will not be able to put us where we feel we need to be. Which brings me to my next point, these various categories will also allow us to get our sites where we feel they are going to be most successful, where we think we will see more conversions. This added search marketing freedom will give many of us the opportunity for more creative online marketing strategies, which will hopefully make all this SEOing more interesting, while being more beneficial. [...] […] As business owners, we should all be grateful for this development, and the simplicity of categorized search for searchers. Now we will be not have to compete with Wikipedia and other unrelated sites for a top search position in our marketplace, we will again be competing against our competitors, and that is something we already do and understand. The key is going to be making sure our site relays our business purpose and information properly to the search engines, so our sites can be categorized accurately. Essentially this means succinct SEO will become more important, as it will help us get our sites in front of our “pre-screened” clients. If the search engines don’t know what we are about, they will not be able to put us where we feel we need to be. Which brings me to my next point, these various categories will also allow us to get our sites where we feel they are going to be most successful, where we think we will see more conversions. This added search marketing freedom will give many of us the opportunity for more creative online marketing strategies, which will hopefully make all this SEOing more interesting, while being more beneficial. […]

]]> By: Google… Here they go again. | SoloSEO Blog http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-2884 Google… Here they go again. | SoloSEO Blog Tue, 01 May 2007 23:23:48 +0000 http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-2884 [...] From a business/SEO perspective this partnership also raises other concerns. Are we now going to be forced to compete for keywords against state governments and their Gigabytes of content to rank in the SERPs? Some industries will be hurt more than others, but off the top of my head I could see legal firms, business consulting firms, and accounting firms being big losers in search if all this content is indexed and added to Google’s already gorged servers. As more content pours online, competition for keywords is going intensify, and the situation may make search a more frustrating and difficult task if the SEs don’t change. This content boom adds a strong argument to the importance of categorized search ASAP. If the public is without a simple way to categorize search results, many businesses are going to find themselves buried in the SERPs underneath content created by their own tax dollars. How grossly ironic, how patently unfair. [...] […] From a business/SEO perspective this partnership also raises other concerns. Are we now going to be forced to compete for keywords against state governments and their Gigabytes of content to rank in the SERPs? Some industries will be hurt more than others, but off the top of my head I could see legal firms, business consulting firms, and accounting firms being big losers in search if all this content is indexed and added to Google’s already gorged servers. As more content pours online, competition for keywords is going intensify, and the situation may make search a more frustrating and difficult task if the SEs don’t change. This content boom adds a strong argument to the importance of categorized search ASAP. If the public is without a simple way to categorize search results, many businesses are going to find themselves buried in the SERPs underneath content created by their own tax dollars. How grossly ironic, how patently unfair. […]

]]> By: Jim Seyba http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-2851 Jim Seyba Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:07:37 +0000 http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/04/19/google-categories-changes-to-competitive-seo/#comment-2851 Hey Aaron. You are absolutely right this is all interesting stuff and I can see it becoming a perfect way for local business to have a fighting chance, but I also see other companies that are coming out with local social marketing sites with a lot of features that could make a much bigger piece of the pie for those shoe stores:-) J.S. Hey Aaron.

You are absolutely right this is all interesting stuff and I can see it becoming a perfect way for local business to have a fighting chance, but I also see other companies that are coming out with local social marketing sites with a lot of features that could make a much bigger piece of the pie for those shoe stores:-)

J.S.

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