You’re probably right about AdWords being an effective method, if you have the right campaigns and things for sale.

I tried AdWords for awhile and was never successful with it. It seems that some of us have a knack for one thing and others for something else.

I’m happy to hear that you’re doing well with paid advertising and I may give it another try later this year after I’ve finished making some changes to what I’m doing.

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JD

i suggest you should try paid advertising, if your campaigns are very specific you will definitely get results , and make sure you turn off content ads , keyword specific , region specific, time specific thats very imp , then you can get lot better result then natural seo.

But i do understand the point you were trying to make and that the results do vary with personalized search results and does add to confusion and uncertainty and makes our job all the more difficult.

Are we taking this wrong? I don’t think so.

However, it looks like you have a different perspective and I respect that.

I don’t advertise through Adwords, so I can’t speak to your point. You very well may be right.

From my perspective, however, the personalized search results adds more confusion and potential difficulty in ranking well in the search results.

Since I depend almost entirely on free traffic from the search engines, that still concerns me.

Do you do a lot of Adwords advertising? Is it working for you?

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JD

i think you have taken this new feature in a wrong way , it has its plus points too , for example from a marketer point of view you will get much better results from paid advertising as in google adwords you will be able to focus to individual who are really looking for your products hence each click through will deliver more results because then the user demographics can be leveraged.

Welcome to our discussions.

I know what you mean. If I’m awake, there’s a good chance that I’m online, too.

I don’t know how personalized search results will affect all of us, but I know it’s going to bring a real change, in one way or another.

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JD

I know what you mean. It’s a bad feeling to find that you’ve met your goal and then discover that it’s really Google manipulating the results you see.

I’m still trying to decide what I think of this and how it may shake out in the long run.

I still think that posting good quality content that serves the needs of both the reader and the search engines is the way to go and I don’t think the sky is falling, but I do think there will be some repercussions that will affect those of us who depend upon organic free traffic as a result of placing highly in the search engines.

Still waiting and watching.

Brian, it’s always good to hear from you.

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JD

You’re exactly right with your last sentence. When we think we have it figured out, everything changes. I guess that’s just the nature of the beast, but it is annoying.

I’m not sure what the real-time search results will bring us. To me, that just seems made for spammers and automated systems spewing junk and links related to the rising topics.

I hope I’m wrong about that, but I’m expecting to see people marketing such software in the very near future.

Sigh.

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JD

I understand what you’re saying.

I’m still upset that Google is using cookies from doubleclick.net, but I’ve decided there’s not much I can do that wouldn’t penalize me in the long-run.

The thing that bothers me most, however, is that they violated one of the basic tenets of permission marketing – getting permission! I would not opt into this as a general rule.

If I had the option to turn it on and off when I wanted, I might feel a bit better, but not much.

I’m not mad about it, but I am annoyed.

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JD

I have mixed feelings about this.

As a Google end user, I want to get the best results when I search for something, but just because I’ve been to a particular site a lot doesn’t necessarily mean that it would be better for what I’m looking for at the time.

As a marketer, of course, I want to rank highly for everyone!

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JD

It causes a problem with searchers finding new sites. If they normally go to certain sites for a type of info will they get stuck always seeing those same ones or will they get results for sites they may have never been to?

It makes it really hard to see where you sit in the SERP’s if checking your incoming keyword phrases from analytics.

Not sure how we will know who our competition is. We know we get differnt results depending on where you live but, now it will depend on where you “normally” go.

Our B2evo blogs show the SERP position of the the incoming search from the user so, that gives me an idea of where they found me on their search page results.

G did announce yesterday that they were rolling out Real time results so, that could possibly help out us that have not always been found by searchers. The real time will be showing updates from a few social sites. That just means we may have to post with more intent than before.

Seems about the time we think we have it a little figured out…they change it on us.
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