Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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Is Google Search Wiki Worth a Look?

Google LogoWelcome to Marketers Board. Recently, a member of one of our coaching groups asked this very interesting question:

Q: “Have you seen Google’s new Search Wiki? Are you aware of this? Using this? Promoting this?”

A: Google’s new Search Wiki allows you to contribute your input and review based on search engine results. But this is something that’s relatively new. We do not purport to be SEO specialists, but with a little common sense this is huge!

So we decided that the best way to answer this question is to record a brief video and show you how it works — and how you can use it to your advantage.

What do you think? Do you think it’s going to eventually affect search engine results? Google has neither confirmed nor denied it, but why wait? This could become an area that may potentially affect our search engine rankings.

About the Author

Sylvie Fortin is co-founder of The Licorice Group, a publishing and training company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and online marketers grow their businesses. For more information, visit her blog at http://MarketersBoard.com.

Category: Search Engines
Tags: google, Internet, Marketing, question, search, SEO, wiki
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  • Jennifer
    This is going to be wonderful for Marketers and I am certainly going to take advantage of it's potential, especially checking comments. I think it will drastically affect search engine results eventually. Let's hope this will turn into a good marketing tactic for us.
  • Les
    This was a great post.
    I wonder if we will see wiki buttons on web sites in the near future, so you can post a comment on your search more easily.
  • WOW!!! What a great video. Someone mentioned this to me this morning and I had no idea what they were talking about. When Google makes changes it it important that we all stay on top of them or all your hard earned SEO work will go down the drain. It has happened several times in the past when Google has changed the algorithm and people lost a lot of money when they didn't adapt their methodology quick enough.

    -Brad
  • This is all new to me but makes a whole lot of sense. Would be a fool not to implement what you suggest. And thanks for coming back and letting us in on your last minute find about the comments,

    Boost your rankings in 2009!

    Always Grateful,
    Andrea
  • Well I knew that you were a bright lady, but just how bright I didn't know! WOW! I am going to enjoy listening to you on the show! This is great information. I noticed those little boxes and I had not clue what they did. I did figure out I can post comments and so I have been doing that knowing that people will read them tehehehehe!

    If it is true they will push the rankings themselves, thank goodness! I am not a fan of social bookmarking. I was watching a video the other day about India's love affair with google...now I can see why!
  • So glad you guys are enjoying the new site. We've got a lot more coming.

    We plan to answer a lot of questions people have about all things marketing and business building. It's going to be a great year!

    Please don't forget to tell your friends about it, and help spread the word. We appreciate your support too! :)
  • Thanks Sylvie. Great video review. Never even heard of this.

    I could see this being valuable in the case of where one has a loyal following. For example, one of my alt. health clients has a big following loyal readers who keep up with his daily blog posts. I think he could just go ahead and ask them to log into Google, promote his site and a leave a favorable comment.

    Sure, he could "bribe" them with an offer. But that sort of takes away from it being an voluntary review. Sounds like paying people -- and would deserve a Google Slap, imo. I think it makes more sense to just constantly give a lot, so that when you ask for a favour like this, the readers (or listeners or viewers -- depending on your medium) are happy to respond.
  • Great job on the site Sylvie and Michel. :)

    Could this be Google's way of split testing "social search" vs. "algorithm search" ???

    Hmmm....
  • hey Joseph! Great to see you here. :)

    Yes, that's exactly what I think. I think Google is paying close attention to how people use the net, and this is their early test in social "voting" on search results.

    It will be cool to see how it all pans out
  • Hey guys.. thanks so much for this info. I can't wait to check it out. And bookmarking your new blog as it looks like it is going to be a great new resource. Happy New Year.. much happiness, health and success to you in 2009!

    Vicki
  • Sylvie,

    Socially directed search...what a novel concept. Let every person determine for themselves what's relevant to them and what's not...and set ads (read: Adwords) on the page according to that search...hmmm

    And thanks Sylvie...I am glad to be here. :)
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