Google Tags & Bookmarks : SEO Implications

[mandy]

Google Bookmarks have entered the searchosphere via an upgraded Google Toolbar and tagging in Google Personalized Search results. In a similar fashion to Yahoo’s direction in Social Tagging, Google may also be looking to incorporate Bookmark & Tag variables into their search ranking methodology...

For privacy hacks there are some pretty freaky things going on in the Google bookmark patent, especially the tracking of visits to site, times spent on sites, and which pages are printed. These variables, when added to a search algorithm however, could be quite valuable in terms of judging the quality of a page’s content and usability...

Including Google Bookmark info in Google’s rankings will also lead to sites paying visitors to tag or bookmark a site...

full article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2875