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briggidere · 07-27-2007, 03:14 AM

Hi all,
I have been reading the current NMA magazine and there is an article about google checkout and it mentions how it can affect your paid listings ranking.

A couple of snippets from the article, Swerling says "It would have an effect to some extent" and "Having a checkout badge doesn't affect your ranking per se, but it could feed into the quality score".

So, are all the Google checkout users getting a slight nudge up with their quality score and those not using it are at a slight disadvantage?

This is news to me, I know the badge looks good in the results, but didn't realise that you could be given a "bonus" for it as well.

What are your thoughts?

07-27-2007, 03:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
briggidere Contributing Member Join Date: 06-20-07 Location: Australia Posts: 242 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Having Google Checkout Improving Your Ranking Hi all, I have been reading the current NMA magazine and there is an article about google checkout and it mentions how it can affect your paid listings ranking. A couple of snippets from the article, Swerling says "It would have an effect to some extent" and "Having a checkout badge doesn't affect your ranking per se, but it could feed into the quality score". So, are all the Google checkout users getting a slight nudge up with their quality score and those not using it are at a slight disadvantage? This is news to me, I know the badge looks good in the results, but didn't realise that you could be given a "bonus" for it as well. What are your thoughts?