{"id":3413,"date":"2013-02-13T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlvr.it\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:51:55","slug":"google-content-is-given-priority-in-search-its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/google-content-is-given-priority-in-search-its-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ content is given priority in search &#8211; it&#8217;s official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlvr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eric_Schmidt_large_memo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3417\" title=\"Eric_Schmidt_Posting to Google+\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlvr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eric_Schmidt_large_memo-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Google+ content is given priority in search \u2013 it\u2019s official\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eric_Schmidt_large_memo-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eric_Schmidt_large_memo.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to excerpts posted by the Wall Street Journal from Eric Schmidt&#8217;s new book, &#8216;\u2018The New Digital Age\u2019, Schmidt explains what the <a title=\"The Future According To Google\u2019s Eric Schmidt: 7 Points\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/corporate-intelligence\/2013\/02\/01\/the-future-according-to-eric-7-points\/\" target=\"_blank\">importance of content posted to Google+<\/a> has on search results. It should come\u00a0as no surprise that Google would tie the two together. Search is Google\u2019s big money maker. If Google wants people to engage on Google+, connecting it with search is one sure way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>The critical extract reads: <em>\u201cWithin search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We said it before in a blog post, &#8220;<a title=\"Time to give Google+ a second look \u2013 the 2nd largest social platform\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlvr.it\/2013\/01\/time-to-give-google-a-second-look-the-2nd-largest-social-platform\/\">Time to give Google+ a second look \u2013 the 2nd largest social platform<\/a>&#8220;, Google+ has size in terms of users but now, the missing link to search is there.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to scale content distribution to Google+, read more about <a title=\"dlvr.it now supports posting to Google+ Pages!\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlvr.it\/2013\/01\/dlvr-it-now-supports-posting-to-google-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\">dlvr.it&#8217;s new Google+ posting tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to excerpts posted by the Wall Street Journal from Eric Schmidt&#8217;s new book, &#8216;\u2018The New Digital Age\u2019, Schmidt explains what the importance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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