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My Site is Getting Huge Improvement in Google Search Results Position
cybernesco:
--- Quote from: qwerty on January 15, 2012, 15:44 ---Google images gives 32,500,000 returns for Eiffel tower. You'd be doing well to get onto the first page no matter what you do.
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Not necessarily, if you open an account with google, signed in with their services etc.. end keep being signed in while you conduct searches, certain things related to you, such as a website, will come up on top regardless.... Eiffel tower, come on the first page for me only me if I am signed in while it is probably in the 1,000,000Th position for everybody else. Google try to personalize your searches to your specs.. Anyway this is confirmed with other tools have tried recently. Eiffel tower, would not be sufficient for any image site anyway. I would imagine that most image buyers making searches from Google would insert the words, stock image, or at least, image, in addition to any other keywords.
Denis
stockastic:
--- Quote from: cybernesco on January 13, 2012, 13:39 ---search results were skewed by the fact I was signed into my Google account when I made those tests. The search engine algorithn seems to take into consideration the site owner being signed-in.
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To me that seems weird - and pointless.
cybernesco:
--- Quote from: stockastic on January 15, 2012, 16:51 ---
--- Quote from: cybernesco on January 13, 2012, 13:39 ---search results were skewed by the fact I was signed into my Google account when I made those tests. The search engine algorithm seems to take into consideration the site owner being signed-in.
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To me that seems weird - and pointless.
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I don't think it is weird or pointless, maybe unwanted. Let me explain, I did open an account with Google + which is their version of facebook, and like facebook I did post a few lines about my website. In addition I did open a Google blog account with similar lines. Now if I sign in and do Google searches thereafter, the algorithm will probably pickup my interests from those lines I wrote in Google + as well as google blogs. The algorithm will make a priority to show my website on top because I already shown an interest in other Google areas with links. Obviously, this is meant to create priorities according to what it sees about you. Therefore it could be anything and not just because I am the site owner.
Similarely, these days, often I see iStockphoto banners being advertised on many websites I visited and see my own images showing up on banners. The reason I see my images on those banners is because I visit my own iStockphoto galley often and therefore somehow that banner knows about it. However, it is meant to lure the image buyers by showing images that he already has seen giving him/her a second chance.
Denis
stockastic:
--- Quote from: cybernesco on January 15, 2012, 19:17 ---often I see iStockphoto banners being advertised on many websites I visited and see my own images showing up on banners. The reason I see my images on those banners is because I visit my own iStockphoto galley often and therefore somehow that banner knows about it.
Denis
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That's accomplished by the use of "tracking cookies". So yes, Google sees that you've visited your own sites, and ranks those higher in search. But if I'm searching for something on Google - isn't it likely because I haven't found it on the sites I've recently visited? All OT, of course. I get your point.
djpadavona:
--- Quote from: cascoly on January 15, 2012, 13:18 ---
So question is how many people use 'stock' or 'image' and how many of these are our buyers?
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A lot. What you are identifying is the long tail of Search. These searches are typically 5+ words, and they contain "stock images" or "stock photos" or "royalty-free" etc. Trying to rank #1 for "stock images" is darn near impossible. But it is possible to rank #1 for "cascoly india stock images", assuming the quotes are a broad match and not exact. The idea is to rank #1 for as many long tail searches as possible.
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