One of the more interesting aspects of Google+ redesign in my opinion is the new way of #hashtag handling. This short post goes over a few basic observations I’ve made so far.

Triggering

What I find interesting is that certain keywords trigger the tag, while others do not.

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Google’s webspam team consists of people who look at spammy links on a daily basis and can recognise bad links quickly. These people also help webmasters recover from penalties by guiding them through the reconsideration process. Part of the process often includes examples of remaining bad links and this is what we’re interested in.

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Earlier this year I wrote about the problem of diminishing keyword data and offered a number of solutions to overcome this problem. Today I will highlight one specific method of keyword and position mining – server log files.

These days there is no such thing as an absolute ranking position.

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I have real-time analytics on my wall in the office and every now and then I bump into an odd case of search traffic. This time I spotted a very unusual keyword:

cache:http://dejanseo.com.au/anchor-text-proximity-experiment/

It’s impossible to search Google for the above as a regular query (unless you use quotes) and users are taken to Google’s cache of the page and not your own site.

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I have so far written around 200,000 words of content. Some of my posts are long and detailed, others can be amazingly short. I experimented with various formats over the years but was unable to find the exact pattern of an ideal post size for my own blog.

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Background

I always felt that surrounding text plays a semantic role in Google’s search algorithm, but was never able to ascertain the degree of its influence or whether it has any impact at all. This experiment was designed to test impact of link context on a small scale with a unique search term.

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Some webmasters think Google Webmaster Tools data in the “Search Queries” section is too inaccurate to be actionable. What do you think?

Results:

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As you can guess from the title, our main discovery (or I should say confirmation) is that Google+ posts you share with limited circles will not be indexed and will not return in Google’s non-personalised search results.

So, if you share a post with two other people, the three of you will be able to see that post in Google’s personalised search (SPYW).

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This article discusses the problem of diminishing keyword data and suggests innovative ways of using the available data in the future.

Key items:

1. The value of long-tail keywords
2. Encrypted search gaining momentum
3. Decreasing amount of available keyword data
4. Google’s tools process keywords to protect user privacy
5. Working with available data to make actionable plans

The Value of Long-Tail Traffic

Numerous studies performed around long-tail traffic highlight volume, conversion rate and ranking potential as two of the most significant benefits of this keyword segment.

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Dejan Research Team again decided to support another project  - this time related to healthcare research in organisation with The World Research and Innovation Congress.

Pioneers in Healthcare provides a unique opportunity for those facilitating and effecting change within their field to interact and collaborate on the critical issues facing healthcare research today.

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