Comments on: The Google Promote Button and SEO

By: hanif

hanif — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:59:19 +0000

I hope it does have some effect on ranking. The better google reflects true content the better the world.

By: Michael Maldonado

Michael Maldonado — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:11:31 +0000

I love the information you posted here. Its a very good site. I am learning SEO by myself. This kind of information really helps a lot. Thanks!

By: Carl B

Carl B — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:53:53 +0000

Wish I could reset it, or clear the history. I dont want to have to logout of iGoogle to see my real rankings.
Even if you dont promote a site, but follow the link to it a few times, it gets pushed to the top of the results.

By: Art Glass

Art Glass — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:32:24 +0000

I've wondered if this button would make any difference with SEO,

By: tim

tim — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:46:25 +0000

Google always invents "little tricks", come on, i would be to easy if hittin this button would mean that you would get higher on google …

By: @loanmodprograms

@loanmodprograms — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:59:39 +0000

I've always wondered if just clicking the results had any effect on ranking. This new would be valuable if they could somehow keep it to one vote per IP. We all know there is a big opportunity for abuse and doing so would prevent that. Maybe they can implement a captcha or something like it.

By: Naplan

Naplan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:37:13 +0000

I think it can't increase page rank but could improve site importance

By: Harris Meyer

Harris Meyer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:31:09 +0000

Thanks for the really clear explanation. Gotta love Google for letting us type any question and finding posts like yours (and mine on other subjects)!

By: Noise-tolerant Web « Collective Web

Noise-tolerant Web « Collective Web — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:16:51 +0000

[...] are a couple of attempts at using the crowd to add context to content: Google’s Promote button, Digg, Twitter lists just to name a few. It’s easy to see that these tools don’t [...]

By: Jasun Douglarr

Jasun Douglarr — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:46:39 +0000

Stunning input about google. I’m honestly dumbfounded that that has not been said before.