Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings?
May 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under google rankings
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.
Monica from Madison, WI asked:
Can you verify that Google is putting more weight on “brands” in search engine rankings? If the answer is “Yes” — what is Google’s definition of a brand? Inspired by Aaron Wall’s post: http://www.seobook.com/google-branding
Duration : 0:3:31
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bmeister77 on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
The Brand Algorithm …
The Brand Algorithm will probably be triggered with terms like ‘buy’,'company’,’[geographic target]‘,’sale’,’shop’,'order’ etc. etc. matched by a ‘new’ database of brands (Chambers of Commerce databases etc.).
jmorg1 on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
How much did IBM …
How much did IBM pay you for that blatant advertising?
zazammweightloss on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
Very helpful video …
Very helpful video – Thanks Matt
Can you please answer this with a yes or no. Does Google give more pr or preference to sites done in Joomla , word press Drupal Or other such OS compared to say frontpage or DW or CSS? There are a LOT of info saying you ( google ) will give Drupal, Joomla and such better preferences?
gvanderleun on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
Good spokesman for …
Good spokesman for Google.
MattCutts on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
wa7son, the video …
wa7son, the video confirms that there was an algorithmic change, but that we didn’t and don’t think of the ranking change in terms of promoting brands.
spamblogger on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
wa7son on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
Question: “Are …
Question: “Are Google putting more weight on brands more in search results?”
Answer: “No we don’t, we just changed something so that brands might now be appearing higher up on the list”
- Well isn’t that what the woman was asking?
PhongTheory on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
thanks for …
thanks for explaining absolutely nothing about this “change”… yet again.
Busbyhead on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
second !
second !
hprof1 on Mon, 25th May 2009 1:28 am
first !
first !