Links – Huge Correlation Between Link Building and Google Ranking

Links have been an integral part of SEO since Google joined the scene. But recently link building’s popularity has taken a bit of a hit, with many believing that Google have reduced its weighting of PageRank in the algorithm. The emergence social signals and other factors indicating user satisfaction have according to many within the [...]

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Posted in Correlation Data by Mark Collier. 19 Comments

Domain Authority

New Correlation Data Suggests Enhanced Importance of Site Wide SEO   SEO’s are huge believers in signals relating to Google’s overall perception of a website. It makes a lot of sense, if Google can understand that Wikipedia’s articles are typically of a higher standard than eHow’s then they can make better decisions on the quality [...]

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Posted in Correlation Data by Mark Collier. 9 Comments

On Page Factors Correlation Data

Sometimes the least interesting results are the most interesting. Long gone are the days of stuffing meta data and H1 tags full of keywords and getting high rankings, all SEOs worth their salt know that. What we will see, over the course of this post is a shocking lack of correlation for the traditional factors [...]

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Posted in Correlation Data by Mark Collier. 24 Comments

Domain Name SEO

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Last week I published data on 342,740 domains that I extracted from the dataset I have built for TheOpenAlgorithm project. What I looked at was mostly from a user’s point of view, not very scientific but pretty significant. I wanted to show, what the user was used to/found normal in terms of domains. What domain [...]

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Posted in Correlation Data by Mark Collier. 19 Comments

The Science of Correlation Studies

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The initial part of my project to bring more science to SEO is based on doing a correlation analysis on individual potential factors within the Google algorithm. An incredibly important part of the project is making an impact on how SEOs and webmasters do business, a core to taking action based on correlation studies is to [...]

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What I Learnt About 342,740 Domains

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I recently did a parse of 12,573 keywords, extracting the top 100 results per keyword on Google. And after cleaning up the data I was left with over 1.2 million web pages and 342,740 unique domains. For the last week or so I have been looking for interesting information within this mountain of data. I [...]

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Posted in The Project by Mark Collier. 11 Comments

Interesting Google Parse Data

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I recently completed an automatic searching of Google of 12,573 keywords. I extracted the top 100 results for those keywords, so around 1.2 million web pages and 342,740 unique domains. This is the dataset I am working off of for the initial round of The Open Algorithm Project. Over the last two days I’ve been pouring [...]

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Posted in The Project by Mark Collier. 19 Comments

SEO Analysis: Buying a Website vs Starting a New One

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  Read below the video for further description, and make sure to leave a comment with your view or opinion in the comments section.   I know that I have asked myself whether I should buy a website or start a new one, each time I have an idea or start a new project. For [...]

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Spelling and Grammar in the Google Algorithm

  Read below the video for further description, and make sure to leave a comment with your view or opinion in the comments section.   Matt Cutts is a one of my favourite SEO commentators and has been answering SEO’s questions for a long time. But a recent video I watched from Matt got my [...]

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Video: How the Google Algorithm and the Panda Update Have Failed Users

  Read below the video for further description, and make sure to leave a comment with your view or opinion in the comments section.   The recent claims by Hubpages, who had been hit hard by the Panda update , that moving all their content to various subdomains has returned their traffic levels to near pre-Panda [...]

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