Earlier this week I ran an experiment to validate a theory about Google giving preferential treatment to blog posting which contained video, essentially allowing those blog posts to rank for keywords and key phrases rapidly. The test which I published was for a new iPhone application called Dynolicious.
You can read the entire experiment parameters and results in the original post, but I wanted to check-in and confirm that the rankings have maintained over time. Here are two Google screenshots taken this morning for one and two-word Google searches:
- +3 days - Google Page 1, result 5 (Search phrase: “iPhone dynolicous”) - a decline of 1 position
- +3 days - Google Page 1, results 2 and 3 (Search phrase: “dynolicous”) - an improvement of 7 positions
Evidence, but this test isn’t that compelling
While the test did validate that the method has some merit, the terms which I selected are deep into niche territory and don’t receive substantial traffic. To further demonstrate the ability to achieve Google rankings in this manner I’ve run another test with an increased difficulty level. I’ll be publishing those results soon. Stay tuned.
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Thomas 08.24.08 at 2:09 am
If I understand correctly, the video was not created from scratch, but was embedded from YouTube. Is that correct? If so, This still seems like a good payoff for the amount of effort. Looking forward to seeing the ‘more compelling’ test results.
Scott McAndrew 08.24.08 at 2:13 am
Thomas: The videos that are being used in these examples are from common video sharing sites (like YouTube and Google Video). When creating the blog posting, the video ’share’ code was added to the content so the video is embedded into the post. Looking forward to sharing more results soon.
web design development india 08.26.08 at 5:31 am
Hey, That’s really great. Seems your method is working fine but Looking forward to seeing the ‘more compelling’ test results.
I am very very eager to know the results