Comments on: Google brand links: organic results to head further south?

By: D Locksmith

D Locksmith — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:28:09 +0000

I agree with Barry, this will have devastating effects on smaller websites. So what exactly Google products are, what they want us to see? And the same thing happens with gmail… To bad for google.

By: Andy @ FirstFound

Andy @ FirstFound — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:33:55 +0000

I thought you'd blog about this when you were ReTweeting things yesterday!

It's a very bad move by Google. The reason people use them is that their organic listings are great. Now they're showing me a directory page before I get to those listings!

By: Google introducing brand links to SERPS – Factors and Impact examined | Holistic Search Marketing | Digital Marketing Consultant

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:17:38 +0000

[...] Malcolm Coles posted this yesterday on his blog – however I was very interested to see the addition of ‘brand links’ to the Google.com search results pages. Certainly it would appear to add yet further weight to many theories surrounding Google’s support for brands within the SERPS. [...]

By: Google Recommending Brands For Searches | Fusion Unlimited Digital Marketing Blog

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:56:22 +0000

[...] feature on their search results pages which displays recommended brands for certain search queries. Malcolm Coles was the first to report on this and used ‘digital cameras’ as an example. Image courtesy of [...]

By: Robert Enriquez

Robert Enriquez — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:14:58 +0000

I wrote about this last night and how it's going to kill Online Businesses.

I'm surprised that Google is even doing this

http://sphinn.com/story/148492

By: Google: Now Recommending Brands For Searches

Google: Now Recommending Brands For Searches — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:17:59 +0000

[...] recommendations for “pages similar to” earlier this week, now they also appear to be testing brand recommendations in response to certain queries. As I reported at the Search Engine [...]

By: supaswag

supaswag — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:00:40 +0000

@Dave
I initially suspected that they'd pull quality signals from Google products. It might be a mix of a handfull of signals that they use. It must be scalable, i very much doubt that there are any 'handjobs' involved. Maybe in the initial test phase but that's it. Reminds me a bit of the rankings in Google local where noone is entirely sure yet what the ranking algo is. Or has someone finally figured that out? ; )

I said before to Malcolm that, if you use a small laptop, the first organic search result appears at the very bottom of the page and you have to scroll to have a look at the top 5 organic results. I am beginning to get a bit annoyed with this. Hello Bing???

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:39:23 +0000

Shower curtain rods. LOL. Crate & Barrel appear for lots of household goods I tried (rugs, mugs, chairs, beds). Dunno if that's a clue, or C&B just sell household goods!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:32:48 +0000

I'd love to know where they're getting the data from - I'd like to think that they're getting most of their data from Google Products (if you search for "toys" you get Star Wars, among other things) and a lot of those appear within Google Products. If they used Products then it would let them use data from ratings too, so they know which brands have more positive reviews so that they can list the more popular brands. It doesn't look like all of their data is coming from Google Products though, as there's a few examples where one or two of the brands appearing in the SERPs aren't listed in Products. I'm fairly certain it's not manual though, unless they have someone there typing in brands for "shower curtain rods"...

By: aukseo

aukseo — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:46:17 +0000

@adrian berry but that then produces more searches for "{brand} cheap digital cameras". That's where you need to target.

It's a similar on Bing where on the top left they give suggested searches, it all depends if people are clicking the suggestions.