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Jeremy Schoemaker touched on a topic recently that kind of makes sense to me. In his post titled, SEO Has No Future, he proceeds to tell his readers that there is no future in the strategy of optimizing your blog or web site for search engines. He explains his thoughts by saying, “From my experiences I am seeing Google SERPS results strongly influenced by Google Toolbar data, Google User history, and Google Analytics data. Googles combination of SEO and social voting via toolbar/history/analytics will continue to sway more in the realm of social voting. I feel this technology will only get better. I don’t think anyone can argue that core SEO has gotten less valuable over the years and I see that trend continuing.”

I can seriously relate to that. If you step back for a minute, I believe that you’ll start to see the light on this too. Google has been slowly working on many things that allow them to get a better feel for the content that people feel are personally important to them. While this data isn’t shared with others and it is kept private, the information is all stored on their servers and I believe is being used to help calculate the how certain things rank in their search engine.

Google Web History

When you’re logged into you iGoogle account, and if you have enabled Web History, Google is keeping a record of everything you do on the Internet 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days out of the year in your Google Web History account. Google follows your trends, they know what your favorite web sites are, they look for patterns in your surfing habits such as the time of day you commonly check your email and they know what your primary interests are based off the different blogs, pages and sites you visit.

In plain English Google says this, “ Web History uses the information from your web history or other information you provide us to improve your Google search experience, such as improving the quality of your search results and providing recommendations. In addition to enabling the Web History functionality, the information we collect when you use Web History may be shared among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose this information to other companies or individuals, except in the limited circumstances described in our main Google Privacy Policy, or with your consent.”

Source: Google Privacy FAQ for Web History

Does your surfing habits which are being logged into Google Web History have an influence on Google SERPS? I’d like to think that they do.

Google Subscribed Links

Google Subscribed Links is an amazing service. Register for the service and get all your friends to subscribe and basically you can incorporate the things that you find on the Internet which are important to you into the search results of Google. People who subscribe to your Google Subscribed Links will see instances of things that you have added into your Google Subscribed Links database when they search for something that has the same keywords as an entry you added into the system.

Google explains this service by saying, “Subscribed Links let you create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages. You can display links to your services for your customers, provide news and status information updated in near-real-time, answer questions, calculate useful quantities, and more.”

While this information isn’t shared or sold to third party companies, is it far fetched to believe that Google will use this information internally to place an emphasis on how things rank in their main engine? Could it be foolish to assume that Google will consider the subscriber base of some of these custom engines and place a level of authority in these micro engine sites? I would think so. End users who have successfully gained a large number of opt in subscription to their Google Subscribed Links system are natural magnets for great quality. People don’t subscribe to garbage and if the custom engine was indeed a link pool of bad information, then there wouldn’t be a large mass of subscribers. I believe that Google is or soon will be looking at end user’s Google Subscribed Links engine when considering how to rank content in their main index.

Google Notebook

Google Notebook is something I am really going to start making use of. The service is absolutely amazing as you can highlight content on the Internet and paste it into your notebook to make a forever long and permanent archive of the information. In Google Notebook, you have the ability to make many individual notebooks, all of which can have their own individual sections. You can make a Make Money Online notebook and capture all your favorite articles related to that. Secondly you can make sections such as the John Chow section in your Make Money Online notebook and snip copies of his articles in there.

All in all Google Notebook is a very exciting feature. Your Google Notebook(s) can all be made public, they can all stream an RSS, they all can be imported into your Google Bookmarks, they all can be imported into your Google Reader and then added into your shared items folder. All of which I believe will soon if not already impact how things rank in Google’s main index.

What About Traditional SEO Strategies and Tactics?

I am going to agree with ShoeMoney on this one. I think his insight is superior to many others in this niche as he tends to downplay his level of knowledge. Are the old days of making sure you make use of the proper <title> tags; <h1>, <h2>, <h3> tags; <img alt=”, <a title=”, and other related tags over? The use of traditional SEO strategies and tactics very well may be limited. The days bartering for link exchanges and asking your friends to provide search engine friendly links on their blogs that point back to yours may start to have little to no impact on your ranking in Google. To me, it would seem more logical of Google to make use of their services such we Web History, Bookmarks and Notebook to place weight on how content ranks in their search engine.

To me, it would seem less likely to be gamed successfully by people who are trying to exploit their ranking system. I am not saying that their evolving ranking system can’t be gamed, but I am saying that people will have to work much much harder to successfully do it. Long story short is if you’re going to invest the time into saving content into your Google Bookmarks and adding an entry into your Google Notebook and possibly even adding the content into your shared folder in Google Reader or adding the content into your Subscribed Links via Google COOP, the content you are adding into your iGoogle account most likely will be good content as most end users are not going to want to crap up their own personal accounts with junk and garbage. Secondly, your public reputation is also on the line.

In the realm of social bookmarking, maintaining a good standing order in the many various networks including your public activity on Google is crucial towards building and maintaining a good online reputation among peers. In many ways, I believe that Google is banking on this factorization which inadvertently prevents web spam due to end users not wanting to be classified as a spammer publicly among their peers. In my eyes, it is superior thinking on Google’s part and it is something that I think will evolve into a much more accurate and powerful ranking system compared to the traditional PageRank system. I look forward to it as it continues to evolve and shape into form as I feel that it is a system that I will do very well in. In fact, in many ways I have been making very proactive measures towards establishing myself in this shifting and evolving ranking system. You should too. Now that you have read my article and understand more about what I think, take a moment and drop me a comment and share your thoughts.

You know, it would be awesome to take credit for sending Thor Schrock the winner of Top Affiliate Challenge from my blog. I have around 800 regular readers, I am sure there is a TAC winner in the bunch somewhere, right???

Do you want to make some money? Do you want to take a spoon and just scoop out the brains of some of the leading experts who are coaching the teams in this challenge and just analysis their pulse signals and how they work? Ah, now is your chance!

The Top Affiliate Challenge is a huge contest being hosted by Thor Schrock that will give you the opportunity to learn from the best of the best. You’ll be hanging out for two weeks with John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker.

Here is a voice mail sent in by Thor, take a listen… you’ll be very excited with what he has to say. Again, I am confident that my blog will generate a Top Affiliate Challenge Winner. Is that person going to be you?

I think that this is a huge opportunity for anyone who is inspired to make money on the Internet. Here is your chance to take advantage of a program in the form of a contest that will teach you quite a bit about the business. Submit an audition video and take your first step towards winning this contest. Be sure to tell Thor that Garry Conn sent you.

Here is what the winner of The Next Internet Millionaire, Jaime Luchuck, had to say about Top Affiliate Challenge.

My wife, Angie, is really NOT a blogger. She does her thing in a few parenting message boards and that is really about it. She has her home page set to Yahoo, hates Firefox and just doesn’t do the whole blog thing… however, she is supportive of me being a blogger and knows that I really enjoy doing what I do, and to be honest as long as the Google checks keep coming in, she really doesn’t give a rats ass if I blog, splog or play online poker. lol

With that being said, I had a rare moment tonight where she stood over my shoulder and I gave her a tour of my little galaxy within this huge universe of the blogosphere. I showed her many of the blogs that I like to read and visit and I showed her a lot of the popular blogs within my niche.

Making my rounds, we stumbled onto Jeremy Schoemaker’s site, ShoeMoney.com, and I proceeded to explain to her what Jeremy was all about and some of the things that he likes to do on his blog. A few minutes into giving Angie the tour of ShoeMoney.com, she saw this picture:

Her initial response was priceless…

She asks, “who the hell takes a picture of a box full of clothes? What the hell is this all about?” I explained to her that this is a picture of Jeremy holding up a box filled completely full of T-Shirts that people sent him.

“Why would anyone want to send that guy a T-Shirt, he looks weird?”, Angie continued on by saying, “Oh wait! I heard of this guy… that’s the shoe guy!!! this is that famous cross-dresser guy that did that popular YouTube video, called Shoes!”

[Watch Shoes - Remove the kids from the room, very bad language.]

At this point, I was laughing so hard I seriously couldn’t breath. I was truly laughing my ass off. It took me about five minutes to regain my composure and continue to explain to Angie why people mail Jeremy free T-shirts.

After wiping the tears of laughter from my eyes, I explained to her that people send in free T-shirt to ShoeMoney because every Friday, Jeremy takes a picture of himself with the shirt on. The shirt will have an advertisement which is basically a form of free advertising. He usually only wears the shirt once for the picture and then throws it in a box.

[example: CLICK HERE]

“What’s the point in that?”, she’s not happy with me at this moment because she feels like I was making fun of her during my laughing episode. I further explained to her more about who Jeremy is and why I found it just utterly hilarious that she linked him up as being the guy who performed in the video Shoes.

Maybe it’s just me… but I kind of feel like if any of my readers were in the same boat, this situation would have struck a funny bone too! OMG I couldn’t stop laughing.

With all that being said, Angie finally “got it” and instructed me to announce the following new programs that GCDC has to offer:

New GCDC Advertisement Program
(Direct From Garry’s Wife)

GCDC will now have the following advertisement programs in effect immediately:

• NoteBook (COMPUTER) November - Mail Garry Conn a brand new notebook and he’ll take a picture of himself holding it. The notebook will be turned on and the browser will be opened up FULL SCREEN to your website for free advertising on GCDC. Garry will promise NOT to throw the notebook in a box after the photo shoot.
  * edit, thanks for the correction, HM3!
  ** Apple Macbook Air preferred.
• Pay My Mortgage Monday - On the very last Monday of every month if you pay Garry and Angie’s mortgage, Garry will then take a picture of the invoice marked as paid with your business card clipped to it. It is suggested to make sure that your business card has your website address on it. As a bonus Garry will Digg and Stumble his own post to assure that you get the Ultimate advertising experience.
• Underwear Wednesday - Send Garry Conn underwear and he’ll take a picture with them on. You can advertise your message on the butt. Limited time only get two cheeks for the price of one. (This is a premium ad service - not free - Price $125,000 USD)
  * Note: Thongs are not accepted nor are they an efficient form of marketing as your ad space is VERY LIMITED.
  * * Please make sure the underwear you send is NOT USED. Photoshopping out brown marks will cost you an extra $50,000 USD.

As you can see, these are very effective forms of advertising. You can send all materials and money direct to Garry Conn. No refunds are accepted, all materials sent in will be kept, and Angie as well as myself will promise to laugh our ass off on the way to the bank.