Comments on: SearchWiki: Now or Never for SEO

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:24 +0000

I think with every advancement in technology comes some sort of abuse and with this the abuse will happen.

By: Photo digitzing

Photo digitzing — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:08:33 +0000

I think the the WikiSEarch is only one part of big process to increase the importance of user as ranking factor. The SEO will change, when people affect on the SERPs - that’s for sure.

By: Skitzzo

Skitzzo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:58:18 +0000

Yura, yes it’s for only one person but participation will only increase, especially if Google promotes it. They’ve also recently said that, surprise surprise, this data might well be used in the ranking algo in the future. So, while it *currently* is on an individual basis and doesn’t have quite a huge adoption rate yet, I think it’s much more urgent than many people are giving it credit for.

Your comment about linkbuilding is a good one and could be an interesting approach, however I think there’s more of the ability to catch up to your competitors in links than there are in thumb up votes in SearchWiki.

By: Yura

Yura — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:34:50 +0000

While it is true, it is only true for one person. If someone thumbs up a result, it’s only for him, not for others, right (at least for the time being)? Considering the participation rate on websites, I’d say that 10-30% of *logged in* use the feature, which really is a few (or several) per cent of total Google users. So it isn’t that bad. For now.

Of course, if you do the research to debunk/support my assumption, so much the better.

You could’ve held the same argument with link building, too, though. The sooner the business starts building content and links for the website, the better of he’ll be in the long run for the very same reasons:
- not getting more loyal customers
- letting competitors gain larger market share
- it’s getting relatively harder to outrank others