Yahoo! adding Del.icio.us to the Search Results
The people at Tech Crunch brought an interesting thing to light this weekend. Yahoo! is integrating del.icio.us tags in the search results for some users on Yahoo! This new move is still in beta according the guys at Tech Crunch. It is an interesting move by Yahoo! because they are basically allowing del.icio.us bookmarks to vote for listing in the search results.
Here is the snapshot of the Yahoo! page provided by Tech Crunch.
What does this mean for you?
This is one small example of how social media is impacting the search engine results page. Are your using social media to promot or protect your company reputation online?
Here is how you could use del.icio.us to promote or protect your company.
1. Setup a del.icio.us account and use your company name or your name as the username
2. Bookmark all the articles that you write.
3. Bookmark other useful article for your company or industry.
Google does index del.icio.us users bookmarks. Overtime if used properly, when you search for your Company name on Google, your del.icio.us profile will turn up in the search results. This is just one simple way that you can protect your company name on the first page of Google.