Vertical Feed

This year, like many people, I could not attend. However, I wanted to follow the news, so I found a great source of reports and updates. I will summarize most important meetings in the best of my ability.

In my opinion, one of the most crucial issues is vertical Creep.

Vertical creep is when non-organic and non-payment results will begin to occupy the top positions in search results. Vertical begun to show search results Altavista back when it was popular, and as a much more sophisticated they have become of all the results page of search engines. Greg Jarboe was the first in talking about vertical creep and everyone brought to the vertical.

All engines are vertical, in one form or another today. Google has its famous "OneBox" which is usually held immediately below the maximum sustained announcement, but just above the organic results. Here you will find news, Froogle, and the results May image, corresponding to a query.

For example, I wrote a few weeks ago about how, when a Google search for the Olympic Games has presented the results on video in the top of the page. But do not stop there. Perform a search for New Orleans for example, and Google that are presented without any result, but only news also brings the card, pushing down the vertical results important is the "stretching" of the top of search results. It is increasingly clear that what the top 1 or 2 organic is worth less, because it could be pushed below the fold, then sponsored by value increases because there is less visible organic results.

According to Gord Hotchkiss, however, the impact on vertical markets at least in Yahoo! And MSN is not that big. His company recently completed an investigation into how users interact with search engines. Yahoo! MSN search conducted by the firm of Hotchkiss' is a follow up to Google search the company concluded last year at this time.

According Hotchkiss, Google does a better job of integrating the vertical markets in results. Google users are more accepting of them, while Yahoo! and MSN, users tend to explore more on a single page vertical offsetting the impact be in the organic results.

This could mean a series of things. First, Hotchkiss, as suggested, Google may have "trained" to its users. We're used to seeing the verticals (and greasy and poorly represented the results sponsored) and therefore greater acceptance of changes in the variables of the page, while Yahoo! and MSN users are less forgiving, perhaps because they feel the results displayed are less relevant. Not too difficult to believe because he gave an example of research in New York Pizza and MSN do not get places for pizza, but the new pizza in New York.

Personally, I've experienced this, especially with MSN. It seems more a problem of determining what types of vertical markets are analysis found Froogle shopping results were showing a lot of key terms of competition to their customers, but not the list of Froogle were optimized.

They responded by creating a data stream that Froogle has been optimized to target these key phrases that have poor Froogle listings. Consequently, the site that his client soon Froogle list of those statements. Although it is not clear, I think that would have led to similar high rankings in the display area Google Froogle.

It also shows that as market research, we should not rely solely on SEO or PPC. This are dozens of verticals there could build if we had an open mind.

If you look at Google alone, there are opportunities in Google News (press releases properly optimized), Froogle, As mentioned above, Google Local, Google Base, Google Video and more. Similarly, with Yahoo! and MSN are not vertical to the investigation. Both engines have also a purchasing portal and news, videos and local results.

Ultimately, the verticals could become "poor man" SEO tactics. If you can not compete can not afford organic, sponsored by Top Maybe you can optimize your product feed to appear before all your competitors?

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