Posted by Amish Keshwani | Posted in Google, SEO, Search Engines | Posted on 08-12-2010
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Hello Friends,
Many of you are following industry updates quite closely & hence I assume that, many of you are aware about the much talked & watched story of Decor My Eyes on NY Times. If not than you can still read it at Search Engine Land as they have covered & analyzed this story very closely.
Well, just to give a brief to those who have not read it yet, New York Times has a great, detailed story out about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, helps to win with Google’s ranking algorithms.
“Hello, My name is Stanley with DecorMyEyes.com,” the post began. “I just wanted to let you guys know that the more replies you people post, the more business and the more hits and sales I get. My goal is NEGATIVE advertisement.”
It’s all part of a sales strategy, he said. Online chatter about DecorMyEyes, even furious online chatter, pushed the site higher in Google search results, which led to greater sales. He closed with a sardonic expression of gratitude: “I never had the amount of traffic I have now since my 1st complaint. I am in heaven.”
So, Do you really think that Negative Advertisement will help in Online Marketing ?
Negative Reviews & Google’s stand on rankings
Well, to all my surprise, Google have indirectly accepted this on their official blog.
“We were horrified to read about Ms. Rodriguez’s dreadful experience. Even though our initial analysis pointed to this being an edge case and not a widespread problem in our search results, we immediately convened a team that looked carefully at the issue. That team developed an initial algorithmic solution, implemented it, and the solution is already live”



