That's right, vote on ranking placement for Google search results. Come strong.

(see 3rd rank for rollover sample)

Oh... I guess I should read my feeds EVERY day.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/ ... r-own.html

Whenever, I'm feeling down on my SEO skills, I can just push my site to the top and pretend it's real.

Yeah, when I'm logged in searchgeeks.org comes up #1 for "Awesome Stuff". It's pretty sweet.

Sorry if this is ignorant, but will organic rankings actually improve with user voting?

Hi Cataleen - welcome!

The answer is no and maybe. Right now the "user voting" is supposed to be a tool to allow you to personalize your search results. No one else sees the manipulations you've made. However they did leave the door open so that in the future they might decide to give user voting some influence.

"According to Google's Marissa Mayer, for now that data is not being used to change overall search results, she said. But in the future it’s likely Google will use the data to at least make obvious changes. An example is if “thousands of people” were to knock a search result off a search page, they’d be likely to make a change."