Comments on: Why Bloggers Should Care About Google Suggest and Online Reputation Management

By: Online reputation management

Online reputation management — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:19:41 +0000

great article. honestly those keyword suggest can bring negative feedback towards your website. There do suggest scam and rip-off that might misunderstand by the users.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:32:27 +0000

Nice Post man. I’ve to agree with above comment, i see many people target scam word.. to promote their products. I don’t think it’s a good idea.Also I agree with this blog. I have recently viewed the video explaining the ways to page rank on Google. I learned ways and understand each category involving the liabilities on page ranking. It is an easy yet complex to define its content but it lets the bloggers know the do’s and don’ts by way of having a qualitative rank. thanks for sharing…

By: GWSMedia

GWSMedia — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:29:16 +0000

Hi, this is a really good article and something which I’ve been toying with the idea of writing about for GWS- well done for such a thorough piece. We’ve linked to it from our blog today, which is basically a how-to guide for those just beginning to market their businesses on the web:
http://onlinemarketing.gwsmedia.com/2010/08/why-should-i-care-about-my-online.html

By: Rahman @ Online Marketing Blog

Rahman @ Online Marketing Blog — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:28:22 +0000

Not everything suggested by Google could be the best converting keyword to write about. However, it can give us a good idea about what people are searching, or “are led to search”!

Then, we can see where it might damage us. So, we get prepared for it.

By: Martha D. Slots

Martha D. Slots — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:40:39 +0000

I’ve never heard of this before. I’ll make sure to find out more.

By: Dave Higgs

Dave Higgs — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:13:14 +0000

Thanks for a great post Chris;

I agree with Lisa – a great source for keywords.

I would like to suggest perhaps a different slant – and that is it is a sort of voting system. The negative side is obvious, but as a copyblogger fan I am unhappy about the connotation of scam for them.

Now if everyone who likes copyblogger were to post a “copyblogger rocks” post – well just imagine :)

Thanks Chris and Lisa for the great ideas.

By: Richard Scott

Richard Scott — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:42:48 +0000

Fight fire with fire. Maybe it’s time for bloggers to write their own SCAM post for themselves. Addressing the issues and concerns on their own site may bring their scam to Google Suggest instead of the competitor.

..Just like this blog did, drawing out the Copyblogger Scam again. :)

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:21:27 +0000

Thanks for the posting. I really like Google suggest. It is almost like they are reading my mind when I am searching.

However, it is another example of the power of Google and why you must be aware of what they are doing so you can work with them. Because as we all know, you can’t work against them.

By: Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella

Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:05:02 +0000

Well I’m not going to worry about Google Suggest too much. I’m just not big enough to be much of a worry.

But I like what you said about responding to unhappy customers. Being quick to resolve their issues is a good way to turn their griping into buckets of praise.

Timely response to their needs is one of the best ways to build and maintain a reputation for excellence.

By: Jon Spooner

Jon Spooner — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:18:14 +0000

Actually this article reminded me of an interesting iphone app based on guessing the google search suggestions:

http://www.thatssoquery.com/

very entertaining.. :)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:50:58 +0000

I think that is very helpful for me when creating long tail keywords, it’s definitely better that Adwords keywords. Great post.

By: blog tips

blog tips — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:38:46 +0000

i think Google suggest the best related search terms calculated by Bot, And for me it really helped and time securing thing.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:29:47 +0000

Good article, but BP are not known as British Petroleum any more they are just BP.

“The name “BP” derives from the initials of one of the company’s former legal names, British Petroleum”

By: mac cleanup

mac cleanup — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:55:35 +0000

One more thing to add about the scam and rip-off. Surfing through Internet I often find advertisements based on rip-off as keyword (this function of rip-off was mentioned earlier), so it is possible that with further spread of the technique the term will be viewed as marketing word mainly (how many people know what was “spam” actually).

By: Mani Viswanathan

Mani Viswanathan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:45:02 +0000

ya its true when searched for suggestions 40% of them are on the negative based terms, the screenshot itself is evident of that thing!

By: Justin Popovic

Justin Popovic — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:44:28 +0000

I have a few business friends who have the word “scam” attached to their name or their business name in google suggest. They both actually don’t mind it at all because it seems to drive traffic and in some cases they even got customers out of it because when people people were doing their research, they looked up info on the so-called scam, ended up calling my friends directly to get the goods and determined for themselves they were upstanding people. Then they decided to buy.

Sure its not always a positive thing to have the word scam associated with your business, but it doesn’t always mean that it will hurt. In some cases…it helps.

Great topic. Needs to be discussed more among online business owners.

By: Christopher Jennings

Christopher Jennings — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:40:47 +0000

I agree with this blog. I have recently viewed the video explaining the ways to page rank on Google. I learned ways and understand each category involving the liabilities on page ranking. It is an easy yet complex to define its content but it lets the bloggers know the do’s and don’ts by way of having a qualitative rank.

Thanks so much for this info!
Would love to have an update on your future posts.

By: mac cleanup

mac cleanup — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:12:30 +0000

In fact it really should be proven that terms like “scam” and “rip-off” are of any value for user. How many people do check those suggestions? How many of these are not able to come up with the idea that content is somehow connected to general flow of user comment, replies etc.

I believe the problem mentioned is not to threaten blog-based business, since in most cases people interested in your blogs know the worth of Google suggestions.

And by the way – use Yahoo to look for you terms. It may return same result without helping Google to develop suggestions further.

By: Hokya

Hokya — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:29:26 +0000

it’s more easy-to-be-used rather than AdWords’s keywords tool

By: Nabeel | Create Your First Website

Nabeel | Create Your First Website — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:06:02 +0000

Hi,

i never thought about this from thin angel. You are right. We have to keep an eye on what’s being said out there about us. It effects our reputation.

The steps you layout are looking practicle. So thanks for mentioning them.

And I did type in BP is and Google Suggest came up with:

BP is owned by
BP is screwed by
BP is lying
BP issues
BP is finished
BP ist
BP is responsible
BP is a buy
BP is criminal
BP is incompetent

Kindest,
Nabeel