August 16th, 2009The Google Promote Button and Remove button and SEO
I am sure you must be using google for searching anything/something on internet (What a foolish question). While doing that you must have noticed a new arrow button to each search result (1 shown in the above image). Yes that arrow up and arrow down button is called the google promote buttons. This is a new google gizmo which is introduced again to make user experience better on google.
It is rather simple button, when we click takes that search result on the top. But people (where I mean ‘I’) thought that is another SEO antic which Google might have introduced to help increase the page rank of that site and that so instantally. Hurray!! Isnt it? Hmm….Not quite so…the Google promote button is meant to be a personal button, a way to ensure that sites you like stay at the top of your search results. It does not mean a credit card affiliate can type “credit card” in Google, click their site, and think that this further optimizes the site for that search term. If anything, it’s just a way for webmasters to get a little ego boost seeing their results at the top of the page.
But does this promote button have any SEO value? Will it help increase the SERPS or SEO of a page? What if 1000 of people click the promote button for a site/page and increase their chance on google? There are so many black hat SEO techniques which already are doing it and this will engage people into a new SEO war.
Do you think Google thinks the way we do? Or has google already contemplated these point? Google must have already chalked out a solvent to all these problems. Google is not dump. Google just kept these buttons - promote and remove per-user. These are not yet digg or hot or not tools. They are just mean to organize your search results. The fav ones on the top and the less fav ones below.
Isnt it this a out of box feature or just a simple feature but affective one? Thats what google aims to - Make life simple. God! Please give me brains 1% as Google has.
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