fotojourn Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 A new “+1 button†endorsement system being trialled by Google not only mimics a well entrenched Facebook feature, but also has the capacity to become a powerful factor in search results. Currently available as an “opt-in†service on the Google Experimental website, the “+1 button†will enable anyone using any Google product to give websites or search results a positive approval, with such a ranking currently being visible to any other person in that users internet network. Google also plans to enable website owners to use the “+1 button†on website content, and also plans to integrate the “+1 button†into social network streams such as the Twitter short messaging service, though Facebook is likely to be out of the search giants reach. The “+1 button†has the potential to provide Google with large amounts of data on internet users search habits, in addition to providing users with the ability to flag websites to Google with high quality original content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 This should be in the tech section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 It should be in the spam section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Where is the "-1" button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Not many people know it but google actually goes to 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 +1 will just give marketing drone something to concentrate on and say to people, "look! xyz site now has 1000% more +1 ratings than before!, give me mega-dollars!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotojourn Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 No it shouldn't be in the tech section. This is about business. If you own a website you're most likely using it for business purposes. As far as spam goes chuckwoww please post your website so we can see how well that does in search. I'll even post a free site appraisal here so every one can see what a website positioning genius you are. Where does your website stand in search for the keywords your customers use to find you? The +1 button will give Google huge amounts of information and will quickly affect search results. With the +1 button you can only +1 once for your Gmail account. Some people might try and game it, but no doubt Google will be able to filter those people using multiple Google accounts to do that by IP filtering. When Google first talked about page load speed lots of people ignored the talk. Now page load speed is one of the 200 or so different signals that Google uses for positioning websites in search results and it was only five months from when they first started talking about it as an issue, before it became a Serp ranking signal. Read the full story before making silly comments, and if you don't understand SEM and how websites are part of your business, not technology, refrain from commenting please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hi, Hey, what did I tell you about posting URL promoting your website in your posts? Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Do you work for Google? No it shouldn't be in the tech section. This is about business. If you own a website you're most likely using it for business purposes. As far as spam goes chuckwoww please post your website so we can see how well that does in search. I'll even post a free site appraisal here so every one can see what a website positioning genius you are. Where does your website stand in search for the keywords your customers use to find you? The +1 button will give Google huge amounts of information and will quickly affect search results. With the +1 button you can only +1 once for your Gmail account. Some people might try and game it, but no doubt Google will be able to filter those people using multiple Google accounts to do that by IP filtering. When Google first talked about page load speed lots of people ignored the talk. Now page load speed is one of the 200 or so different signals that Google uses for positioning websites in search results and it was only five months from when they first started talking about it as an issue, before it became a Serp ranking signal. Read the full story before making silly comments, and if you don't understand SEM and how websites are part of your business, not technology, refrain from commenting please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotojourn Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 haha. Not at all. Half of me thinks Google is very evil, despite what they say. But the fact is they control the internet search market and there's no getting away from that. They got caught a couple of months ago with the JC Penney link buying deal where Penny's went from #1 in search results to oblivion and then brought out their new "panda" algorithm and this +1 button will give them a lot of user feedback. Forget about the information being shared with other people you know who use ANY Google product, it's the information it's going to give to Google that is more important. Especially once it's available to put on every piece of content on a website. Even these posts in this forum will be able to be voted on. Now that's a serious lot of information they're going to be collecting and I have no doubt it's going to be part of the way pages are graded in Serps very quickly. It's particularly going to hurt people who use other "off-page" techniques to get their websites onto page one of Google search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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