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You know your business has arrived when a consumer starts to type in your company name and Google completes it and includes a link to your site in the auto-complete!

Never seen this one before. Go to the Google home page and start typing in 'Oberers' and see what I mean.

Wow!

I've tried to replicate it with other florists and only found McShan's, Walter Knoll & Bachmans to get the same treatment. No doubt there are others, but some notables have yet to meet that bar.

IMO this will take 2 elements to acheive:

1) A whole lot - and I mean *a lot* of people are looking for your company by name.
2) You only have 1 website so G knows it's it.

Very, very cool.
 
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no doubt very very cool.

I want for my name to pop up on a google search when people start to type in
"S-H-A....
And then it says Shannon Conner Floral Stylist

he he he.....
 
Saweet! I think I have arrived then!

Thanks for pointing that out.

I found a few others - Ballard Blossoms - Rothe Florist (put in Phil), Kremp, Breens, Heroman, I'm guessing many of the larger florists?

I think you primarily need a unique name without a lot of others sharing the same words?
 
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bloomz said:
Saweet! I think I have arrived then!

Thanks for pointing that out.

I found a few others - Ballard Blossoms - Rothe Florist (put in Phil), Kremp, Breens, Heroman, I'm guessing many of the larger florists?

I think you primarily need a unique name without a lot of others sharing the same words?
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Woot! Me too, have to get as far as "hanging bask" though, but it is sweet to see that for my little shop.
 
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bloomz said:
Saweet! I think I have arrived then!

I'm guessing many of the larger florists?

I think you primarily need a unique name without a lot of others sharing the same words?
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Mine pops at Smiths fl (top link)

(no shown link, but I am liking the 65,000 results for my shop name in Da Goog)

How bout from your end Jon???
 
bloomz said:
Saweet! I think I have arrived then!
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Cool! For which query?

I found a few others - Ballard Blossoms - Rothe Florist (put in Phil), Kremp, Breens, Heroman, I'm guessing many of the larger florists?
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Ballard shows from here, but not Rothe, Kremp, Breens or Heromans. I do get their names as auto-completes, but there are no direct links to their sites straight from the query bar.

Did spot Kuhn's, though.
 
TGDragonfly said:
I love it when I'm beat by someone who has added an "S" to my web address.
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I'm sorry Sir....but...

Dragonflyevent was created on 06-27-05

DragonflyeventS was created on 09-14-01

Seems you have their domain ;)
 
thanks Cathy! you made my day.

I guess I've arrived, I pop up #1 and even before our school system and we both have the same first name. :)
 
I think there may be some confusion as to what Cathy is referring to. Some results not only drop down a search result, but also a link in the drop down window itself. See below:

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....


....make sure you do a disk clean or run ccleaner to get a true reading
of the google results. Seems alot of my past seaches pop up. If you
have a google acct it would probably help to sign out from your acct.
You want to get an unbiased reading right?
 
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lol - you can run all the disk cleaners you like, but that won't save you from Google's personalized search.

You can log out of all Google accounts, use a the pws=0 command at the end of the query string and even then you'll still get somewhat personalized results.

Ryan
 
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JCT said:
Does it still count if I type in most of my shop name? If so, I'm in too!! jenny
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It only counts if the auto complete includes a link. It will auto complete most shop's names, the link is the key. You can see an image of this in my previous post.
 
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Infinite said:
lol - you can run all the disk cleaners you like, but that won't save you from Google's personalized search.

You can log out of all Google accounts, use a the pws=0 command at the end of the query string and even then you'll still get somewhat personalized results.

Ryan
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True enough, although I haven't looked at the sites from Walter Knoll, Bachman's or Kuhn's for quite a long time so I believe the auto-complete links have zero to do with my own personalized search.
 
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CHR said:
True enough, although I haven't looked at the sites from Walter Knoll, Bachman's or Kuhn's for quite a long time so I believe the auto-complete links have zero to do with my own personalized search.
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I agree with you. I have never done a search for "Sears" and Google auto completed with a link.
 
LJVF said:
I agree with you. I have never done a search for "Sears" and Google auto completed with a link.
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The autocomplete is based on Google's entire search volume.

What does or does not get a link, and possibly some priority within the autosuggest can be based on your history.

Personalization is most easily spotted within the organic SERPS, though it impacts PPC ads as well.
 
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