Darren Shaw - User Behavior and Local Search - Dallas State of Search 2014

Darren Shaw
Darren ShawFounder/President at Whitespark
User Behavior and Local Search
Darren Shaw
State of Search 2014
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Do clicks affect rankings?
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Let’s test
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Everyone, get out your phone,
disconnect from wifi,
and Google: dallas wedding dresses
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Scroll down and click on
mockingbirdbridal.com in the
organic results.
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Now, let’s amplify this via
social media
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How I got obsessed with user
behaviors as ranking signals
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bit.ly/11mkCru
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bit.ly/11mkCru
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bit.ly/1ureMjr
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bit.ly/1kxP9ar
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slidesha.re/WdbkLK
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Pull out your phones, search for “seattle
wedding dresses”, and click on Belltown Bride
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Within 10 minutes they had moved up
from the bottom of the page to #2
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They also moved into position B in the local pack,
and they still hold this spot today.
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This demands further testing!
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Test 1 – Hammer Time
Low competition market
Click website link 100 times per day
Repeat for 30 days
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Starting position on
October 4th
E in the local pack
Search for “roanoke accountants”
Click on “Stanley G Boatwright”
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Checked on November 15th
No change…
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Checked from my
hotel room last
night. Again, no
change.
Test 2 – A Softer Approach
Low competition market
Click website link 5 times per day
Repeat for 7 days
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Starting position on
October 6th
G in the local pack
Search for “wilmington nc accountants ”
Click on “Joseph Guo CPA,PLLC ”
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Checked on
November 15th
and look at this!
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Checked from my
hotel room last
night…
Test 3 – Click Burst
High competition market
Click website link 50 times per day
repeat for 3 days
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Search for “los angeles personal injury lawyers”
Click on “The Torkzadeh Law Firm”
Starting position on
October 3rd
C in the local pack
Watch what happens
over the 3 days
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Why did test 3 seem to work, but
the first test didn’t?
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REMINDER
Test 1 – Hammer Time
Low competition market
Click website link 100 times per day
Repeat for 30 days
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Theory
The first test was way overboard. An
unnatural amount of clicks for that
city and keyword.
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Test 4 – Slow and Steady
High competition market
Click website link 5 times per day
Repeat for 30 days
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Search for “los angeles moving companies”
Click on “West LA Movers”
Starting position on
October 3rd
G in the local pack
Watch what happens
over the thirty days
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I checked from my
room in Dallas last
night, and still
at position F
Hmm. Inconclusive.
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Test 5 – Clicks on Google+ Link
High competition market
Click “Google+ Page” 50 times per day
Repeat for 3 days
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Search for “miami personal injury lawyer”
Click on the Google+ link for “The Altman Law Firm”
Starting position on
October 3rd
G in the local pack
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Click this link, not the business name.
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Over the course of the
3 days, not much changed.
This is the last screenshot
taken by our system
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But I checked in my
browser from Denver
yesterday, and looky
here!
Theory
Like with the test on Linda’s forum,
perhaps it just needed some time to
“simmer” before rankings were
affected.
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Burning Question
Can you do this with Mechanical
Turk?
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Search for “plumbers san antonio tx”
Click on “Bryco Plumbing Co”
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Starting position on
November 4th
G in the local pack
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November 7th
No change
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November 13th
Moved up one
position…
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November 16th
They’ve now moved
up 2 spots
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Search for “plumbers philadelphia”
Click on ORGANIC result “Sam Wexler Plumbing”
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Started here on
November 4th
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November 16th
No change
I’ve been checking
regularly, but not
seeing any change
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Using your mobile phone and cellular network,
Search for “accountants cincinnati”
Click on “Mellott & Mellott”
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I asked them to complete the task on our website
so I could track their user agent and make sure
they were actually using mobile.
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Started here on
November 4th
Position E
A little early, but
possibly trending
towards higher
rankings?
Checking from different
IPs and browsers. Appears
to also be trending towards
improved rankings.
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Using your mobile phone and cellular network,
Search for “electricians cincinnati ohio”
Click on “Queen City Electric”
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So far, no ranking changes
with the click-to-call test, but it has
only been running for 6 days.
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Pogo-sticking Test
Can we demote a listing through
automated pogo-sticking signals?
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This locksmith spammer has
created a fake listing with
the angieslist category page.
I wonder if we can take
him out with microworker
pogo-sticking…
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Search for “cincinnati locksmiths”, click on that
spammy listing, click back, then click on the top
ranked listing.
So far, 166 people have done it, and
no ranking changes, but I sure as
hell hope this doesn’t work.
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Can you imagine?
Pogo-sticking Negative SEO…
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Why no driving directions test?
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Google has plenty of data to determine if you
actually drove to the location. Just searching for
directions isn’t a signal they need to use.
Ranking Fluctuations
What is going on?
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October 4th
Position E
Remember the first test where we
didn’t see any ranking change?
November 16th
Position E
We captured over 1700 screenshots
from October 3rd through November
15th. There was a ton of variation.
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Oct 24th
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Oh, and look here
on Nov 12th
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What’s causing the variation?
Different browsers?
Different data centers?
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Notice that there wasn’t nearly as
much variation in the los angeles
personal injury lawyer results.
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Theory
Google deliberately mixes up the
results to test if users like them
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Google has much more data on “los
angeles personal injury lawyer” than
“willmington nc accountants” so
they already know the preferred
choices, and there is less variation.
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Multi-armed bandits and the epsilon-greedy method
http://bit.ly/11cMyxt
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Multi-armed bandits and the epsilon-greedy method
http://bit.ly/11cMyxt
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http://bit.ly/1ybvkLE
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http://bit.ly/1wMyoMa
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Let’s check our test…
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Take Aways
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1. Google *is* using click-through
data, and sadly, it *is* easy to
manipulate.
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2. The ranking fluctuations since the
Pigeon update are deliberate
(I think)
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3. Weekly or monthly rank tracking
data is useless. Need to track at
least daily to measure trends.
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Thank you!
Any questions?
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Editor's Notes

  1. In the end, I estimate that about 60 people did the test.