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Content Is King
Analytics & KPIs Are Royal Subjects
by Rob Griffin , Friday, March 4, 2011
It’s been an interesting string of weeks, with a couple of groundbreaking announcements from Google. While both are aimed at improving relevance, one is more algorithmic and mathematical in terms of assessing the quality of content — while the other is consumer feedback to essentially cross-reference the same quality content metric. I won’t waste any time here discussing the details, since this has already been covered in depth.
What is more interesting to me is how these changes will improve the quality of search results for consumers, and the impact they will have on advertisers. While Firefox has provided an extension for years that has enabled the consumer to filter both paid and organic results, this functionality existed in a vacuum and was only known to the elite tech-savvy lot. What Google is trying to do now is harness that collective feedback into a formulaic loop to improve results for everyone. For once I feel that this fits well with the engine’s mantra of “don’t do evil,” and I fully endorse these enhancements. This should only benefit quality brands, publishers, and advertisers. (more…)