Comments on: How To Whip The Competition In Organic Search Results

By: Clickthrough Experiment Update • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog

Clickthrough Experiment Update • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:36:05 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago I came across an experiment which in brief suggested you could improve your click through rate on SERPs by making them stand out. This would seem to make sense and his figures suggested a staggering [...]

By: New from Google: AdWord Connect | apBizz Blog

New from Google: AdWord Connect | apBizz Blog — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:01 +0000

[...] How To Whip The Competition In Organic Search Results Connected Internet, UK – Apr 22, 2008 It differs from PPC campaigns, such as the intrusive adword ads you see in the sidebar. Middle last year, I’ve been experimenting with ways to increase … [...]

By: Joe Cole

Joe Cole — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:18:19 +0000

Hmm, is this right?

By: Goran Website

Goran Website — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:57:58 +0000

Since I posted I have not seen any capitalization on description on any searches, but have been keeping a look out, so as to see if it works on me.

By: Tim Igoe

Tim Igoe — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:15:21 +0000

I’m one that certainly avoids all capitalized titles, i can’t stand them myself.

As for all capital content too, that is a straight no no. Horrible idea in my opinion.

By: SEO Consultant

SEO Consultant — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:15:57 +0000

I am quite skeptical about this simply for the reason that you need to come up in the search result first to invite more clicks through the CAP letters.

By: Accurist

Accurist — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:06 +0000

standart seo tips, every blogger use one. :D ))

By: Goran Website

Goran Website — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:21:43 +0000

I am not too sure which of the 2 I would click now that you point it out to me. I like the Upper case in the Title, but not in the description.

This is not to say I wont try. If it worked for you then it must work for me.

I will give it a go on one of my sites.

PS for those above this is not about SEO its about onpage conversion optimisation.

By: Improving Clickthrough rates on SERPs • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog

Improving Clickthrough rates on SERPs • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:19:19 +0000

[...] link from Als weekly round up on Self Made Minds to an article on improving organic click through rates got me thinking. Sadly the article fails to indicate how they quantitatively measured their [...]

By: Friday Links » Self Made Minds

Friday Links » Self Made Minds — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:41:45 +0000

[...] Using all UPPERCASE in your title tag may look spammy but has good results in organic searches according to Connect Internet. [...]

By: Kurt Schmitt

Kurt Schmitt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:24:37 +0000

@Jenny web -
The technique in the article is for increasing clicks, and therefore traffic, not increasing rank. In other words, all things being equal (including ranking), you will get more traffic by using all caps. It is not, therefore, an “SEO” technique as much as a technique for increasing CTR at the SERP level. The obvious answer as to why one site ranks over another is that, from Google’s point of view, one site’s page is more relevant than the other. From a website owner’s point of view, it means that the higher ranking site has fewer weaknesses than the other.

By: Jenny web

Jenny web — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:09:42 +0000

I feel the usability of titles and descriptions in caps are not good enough. why “www.maxpersuasion.com/” ranks the first, “while http://www.xtrememind.com/” ranks the second?

By: Kurt Schmitt

Kurt Schmitt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:36:53 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for the update. I think I’ll try it out.

By: Joseph Plazo

Joseph Plazo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:22:11 +0000

I’ve always had two or three entires listed for certain keywords. That, I’m not sure why.

I asked tech support at google if this violates any quality guidelines. Their reply? No. While they prefer small caps, because large caps looks like a SCREAM, they have no objections to it.

So I’m keeping it. My traffic is off the charts.

By: Deca

Deca — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:10:54 +0000

I’ve never heard about using all caps having an effect to SEO. I will give it try

By: Kurt Schmitt

Kurt Schmitt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:24:55 +0000

Questions:

1. For the example given, I notice that you own two entries on the first page. I know that the Stompernet guys have shown that this causes a dramatic increase in traffic over having just one listing (possibly instilling more trust from the visitor). Did you always have those two entries as well, or is that new? Have you factored that into your improved results?

2. What are the odds that SE’s will start looking at all caps as spam and adjust the algos? It wouldn’t be that hard for them to do. I’m all for improving results, but having to go back and adjust all your pages would be no fun.

By: Forest Parks

Forest Parks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:46:24 +0000

Wow this is interesting?

I guess in Wordpress I can just type the Uppercase title into the SEO Wordpress plugin option for each post.

Any idea how I would do this for my blogger blog?