Big Brands? Google Brand Promotion: New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding

Posted by Google on Apr 01 2009 | SEO news, Analytics, Blogging, Content Creation, Events & Conferences, Google, Keyword Research, Link Building, Microsoft, SEO Tools, Social Media, Spamming & Black Hat, Web 2.0

Originally when we published this we were going to make it subscriber only content, but the change is so important that I thought we should share some of it with the entire SEO industry. This post starts off with a brief history of recent algorithm updates, and shows the enormous weight Google is placing on branded search results.

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Google, Subdomains, and Branding

Posted by Google on Dec 16 2007 | Content Creation, Events & Conferences, Google, Link Building, Online Marketing, Marketing, Webdev

In the past any large company could use subdomains as an effective reputation management strategy. As eBay and others have aggressively used subdomains to dominate branded AND unbranded search results, and Google has improved their sitelinks technology, any relevancy gain by treating subdomains as a separate site has gone away. Google is going to start treating subdomains like subfolders, and limit the number of results from any site to two.

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