User-Generated Content (UGC) and Search Visibility
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User-generated content is a cool, and extremely effective way to increase search visibility. UGC includes blog comments, community threads, reviews and ratings, and status updates (and more). All content visible and usually indexable to search engines. And more search engines are giving fresh content like UGC serious placement in search results.
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User-Generated Content (UGC) and Search Visibility
- 1. User Generated Content A Cool Way to Increase Search Visibility Barbara Coll CEO WebMama.com Search Engine Marketing Services February 2010
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Editor's Notes
- In Dec 2009, there were nearly 10 million searches done in the US alone. Just over 6.5 million on Google, nearly 1.5 million on Yahoo, and nearly 1 million on Microsoft sites – are you visible? http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nielsen-reports-december-u-s-search-rankings/
- But what are the search engines feeding on? User generated content [http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/sizes/l/ ]
- Where are users generating that content? On community sites – social networks – both external
- And internal, where businesses custom build pages for their communities – http://communities.vmware.com/home.jspa . A mix of controllable content.
- http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g32460-d284446-r5472226-Yosemite_Rose_Bed_Breakfast-Groveland_California.html
- But the search engines do. Comments from Friendfeed (recently bought by Facebook) are returned in Google search results within 13 seconds: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-01-25-n52.html
- Google favours Yelp – a community driven site
- Are you constantly feeding the search beasts?
- UGC. Threads created, and responded to on a minute-by-minute basis. Being found in past 24 hours by Google search
- Responses to UGC creates more content. Being found by Twitter search function
- UGC Blog posts with comments http://blogs.vmware.com/
- http://blogs.vmware.com/
- Descriptions, title, tags and moderator introduction – all optimized.