Comments for Optimizing for Google Onebox

Comment on What is the difference between organic optimization and OneBox optimization? 1000 Miles. by Mr T Shirts

Mr T Shirts — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:44:46 +0000

I’ve been pluggigng away at SEO for a long time now and it is very much a long term process, which makes the onebox so refreshing, I can actually have some results instantly!
Thanks for the advice

Comment on New Video Demo by Audio Bible

Audio Bible — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:09:21 +0000

I am interested in someone optimizing my feed, can someone contact me?

Right now I am just submitting to Google base.

Thanks and let me know………..

Comment on What is the difference between organic optimization and OneBox optimization? 1000 Miles. by Josseph ( Better Search Engine Rankings )

Josseph ( Better Search Engine Rankings ) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:59:10 +0000

THis is great stuff. I know SEO like the back of my hand, yet I have never optimized for product search, and am trying to learn more to offer it to my clients. Thanks a bunch.

Joseph.

Comment on R.I.P. Froogle, Long Live GPS! by Thomas Pletsers

Thomas Pletsers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Today I saw Google changed the base product listing that you could access by clicking more to a prominent shopping link below the search box.

Comment on How do you report spam in Google Products? by Thomas Pletsers

Thomas Pletsers — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:08:24 +0000

I have reported listings aswel , but it takes a long time before Google takes care of it and a week later they are back up doing the same thing.

Comment on How do you report spam in Google Products? by Boris

Boris — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:19:27 +0000

I am glad I’m to busy to bother, but I am glad that someone is paying attention.

Comment on How do you report spam in Google Products? by Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:25:52 +0000

Brian,

I also use the RSS feature to quickly spot spammers as they enter the index:

http://base.google.com/base/search?nd=1&showrefine=&q=makita+drill&scoring=r&us=0&output=rss&ie=utf8

Happy Hunting!

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:50:06 +0000

The product search URL is now in the top five results on the first page of two very competitive search phrases - ‘chess sets’ and ‘chess set’ in google.co.uk AND we have had significant sales increase since this happened. The URL only shows our stuff - it’s fantastic! Here’s the search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GFRD,GFRD:2007-29,GFRD:en&q=chess+sets

Comment on OneBox titles that get results by Brian Mark

Brian Mark — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:09:50 +0000

What you missed is that we’re talking about onebox, not google product search. I get many times more clicks on my products from onebox results than from product search, so that’s what the tip is for.

Comment on OneBox titles that get results by Steven

Steven — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:15:07 +0000

Hi Brian,
Im a bit confused what you mean when you say it pushes the price out further. When i look at Google Product search all the prices are listed down the right hand side in a nice neat straight column.
Im looking at this page http://www.google.com/products?sampleq=1&q=trackman+mouse

Have i miss understood something?

Also I have a few questions about what we are doing in terms of Google Base/product search. Can i post them here to get some feed back??

Comment on OneBox titles that get results by Steven

Steven — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:13:56 +0000

“You see, the longest name gets the most screen real estate and pushes the price out further”

Have i miss understood something?

Also I have a few questions about what we are doing in terms of Google Base/product search. Can i post them here to get some feed back??

Comment on Where does the name “Onebox” come from? by Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:09:09 +0000

I’d also experience a new feature test on one of my feeds, i posted a story here with screenshots.

http://www.tomthedeveloper.com/blog/google_base_asks_the_questions/

i’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this and on where you think google base is going.

Comment on Where does the name “Onebox” come from? by Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:04:32 +0000

Good to see you back Mark, I’m looking forward to your future posts how about a sneak peek?

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:14:59 +0000

The feed is now on page 1 of the serps! A search in google.co.uk for either ‘chess sets’ or ‘chess set’ results in one result in the organic results being a feed to GBase products. Amazing.

Comment on Where does the name “Onebox” come from? by Brian Mark

Brian Mark — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:24:25 +0000

I have one scheduled for next week and have 3 more topics almost ready to publish. I’m going to go for 1 per week this time and hope that doesn’t burn me out so much.

Comment on Where does the name “Onebox” come from? by Rick

Rick — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:58:47 +0000

Nice to see you back again! Should we expect more posts?

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:27:37 +0000

The feed seems to have settled at page 2 for both plural and singular search phrases ‘chess sets’ and ‘chess set’ on google.co.uk. It has some hefty chess links helping it, and I think it could go further - but if anyone wants to participate in the experiment, please feel free to lik to the feed. It would be somewhat cool, way cool and super cool if it could appear on page 1 for searches. If searching for something more specific like ‘chess sets feed’, ‘feed chess sets’, or ‘google chess sets’ it’s number one and two respectively! Base feeds can be SEO’d”!!

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:25:18 +0000

The feed is up to page 3 on google.co.uk for ‘chess sets’ (and page 4 for ‘chess set’)

Comment on BaseOp Service - Currently in Alpha by Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:03:48 +0000

David told me this week on Webmasterradio chat that adding your 1800 number to your company name results in a lot more clicks.

So I did, but next day nothing changed, so I uploaded one of the product file to base, and now I have two one box results for the same search phrase. I guess base tags the company name at the time of uploading the file, so old files with similar products don’t have the number displayed yet. Resulting in two onebox serps for the same company. First time I seen it like this.

Here is a link my screen shot so you can see for your self.

http://www.birthdaydirect.com/images/base.jpg

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:47:58 +0000

The feed is up to page 4 for ‘chess sets’ on google.co.uk

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:13:44 +0000

Brian

Wouldn’t the robots file stop their own bot from going any further from a higher page, but not an indexing of a page if linked to from outside? Does it check the root first? Anyway it’s done now - from http://www.veryboring.com and http://www.baronturner.com - I’ll pop back if anything coomes of it.

Thanks for your explanation of the previous clicking thing.

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Brian Mark

Brian Mark — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:57:04 +0000

Also, as for your first comment, it was clicking on product results where no results were showing, not as a means of moving something up the list. I had blogged about that here already, and it does indeed still work, although it’s a bit tougher now.

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Brian Mark

Brian Mark — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:54:06 +0000

I think you missed the robots.txt setting that prohibits the indexing of the products. At one point, shortly after the name change, they were indeed showing up in the organic SERPs. However, they excluded it once Danny Sullivan pointed it out and it hasn’t shown up since.

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:45:51 +0000

Continued results show opinion above to be correct. Of course Goog will surely see what is effectively spamming in time.
But whoah! I have a great question…
What would the effect of linking to GPS results - like doing some SEO (the external linking part) on the page?? I’ll try it from two blogs and another site and report back (might take some time to see any results huh?) For testing purposes the link is going to be:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-33,GGLJ:en&um=1&authorid=1104921&cdn=ChessBaron+Chess+Set&q=&scoring=pd
There are a lot of parameters in the URL huh? But that generally stops/slows-down Goog indexing when it comes across the originating site but not when it sees an explicit link from an external site.

Comment on WebProNews Interview Posted by Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:02:41 +0000

Sorry - I lost my way back here - eventually found it.
Guy’s - I have it.
1. The more stuff you have in there the more they’ll one-box it. At least that’s what it looks like. I’ve bloated the feed to include variations of the product so that instead of 300 products I now have 684. Now my own product is showing along with the products I’ve placed with eDirectory - the online shopping mall - in the one box - for a number of searches. (My store is ChessBaron)
2. The info you can add as custom fields doesn’t apear to affect the one-box.

Here’s the search and the onebox:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-33,GGLJ:en&q=buy+staunton+chess+set

Here’s the product results page links in Base:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-33,GGLJ:en&um=1&authorid=1104921&cdn=ChessBaron+Chess+Set&lnk=storeall