Turn Off Google Personalized Search
Google has rolled out personalized search to users and being logged in or out had no impact. Today I noticed that I had a new icon in the top left corner of my search results. It stayed in the spot even if I was logged out. I clicked off and my results changed slightly (only listings out of the top 5). When I performed another search I found that the option was turned back on and I had to click off again.
SearchExchange 2010
I recently spoke in Charlotte during the SEO and PPC conference, SearchExchange. It was a great event and the location couldn’t have been better. The only issue I had with the event was the lack of WiFi within the event, but I was able to hop onto a few open signals outside of the theatre in between sessions.
The RavenTools team was in attendance and kept a running blog of each speaker. (My PPC session). I was lucky enough to have Benjamin Rudolph, David Kyle and Kate Morris present during the same session.
The Rich Are Different Than You and Me
Google recently made a change to search results. Certain searches will now trigger a link above the organic results and below the paid search results with a list of brands. Clicking these links do not take you to the brand’s homepage, but to your search result with the brand added in.
