Comments on: Confirmed: Google changes algorithm to favour brands

By: IGRAPHIX BLOG | Google Brand Update Hits UK

IGRAPHIX BLOG | Google Brand Update Hits UK — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:55:50 +0000

[...] in March Google performed an update which effectively boosted the rankings of big brands in the search results. At the time I commented [...]

By: Elite Web Development | Google Brand Update Hits UK

Elite Web Development | Google Brand Update Hits UK — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:31:29 +0000

[...] in March Google performed an update which effectively boosted the rankings of big brands in the search results. At the time I commented [...]

By: Lisa Thorell

Lisa Thorell — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:03:05 +0000

Hmm — have not been to this blog before. Interesting thoughts — however, the date stamps on the comment posts (its 4/16/09) and many comment posts are stamped June 2009 and later — well, I guess I’m viewing a conversation that hasnt taken place yet.

By: voxunity

voxunity — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:55:02 +0000

yvonh
That’s a good point.

By: What’s a URL? | dancingmango

What’s a URL? | dancingmango — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:30:31 +0000

[...] your website for search engines (SEO) are hardly rocket science (especially if you are an already trusted brand), and Google let’s you in on a lot of their secrets which is 80% of what any SEO company will [...]

By: Leadsmarketer

Leadsmarketer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:55:15 +0000

How can SEO and a search engine marketing campaign improve Leadsmarketer website (www.leadsmarketer.com) position in the search engines? Our marketing and sales department invested a lot of resources in writing all the content for our web site but we just canâ€™t seem to be ranking high enough in the engines, while our competition is on top. Do we have to re-write it all over again?

By: Greg P

Greg P — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:50:53 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else in the UK, but I’m starting to see this in my industry now. Bizarrely on one specific product query, the top result has 8 sitelinks, each of which is in a different language, odd.

By: Ce am mai citit saptamana asta | Alex Dumitru / Sandossu

Ce am mai citit saptamana asta | Alex Dumitru / Sandossu — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:30:53 +0000

[...] Confirmed : Google changes algorithm to favour brands [...]

By: yvonh

yvonh — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:13:02 +0000

Hi Patrick now that big brands rank better, will they spend less on Adwords?

By: Musa Aykac

Musa Aykac — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:07:41 +0000

I do not think its about “New” factors, they have just put more weight against the authority, trust, and pagerank then they did before

As an example and this is just an example

Lets say a site has been around for a long time, has great content, fully trusted and a very good pagerank. And it was being out ranked by a site that was solely relying on links (Which most are probably artificial and bought and something that I was seeing occur a lot). Then Googles new tweak would give more power towards these trusted sites (NOT brands).

And to be honest real SEOs should not be feeling this latest tweak because they should have effectivley been creating a site that meets the above criteria.

If Google changes something and people begin complaining than you know they have done something right, as most of the people complaining probably do not deserve to be in top flight positions anyway.