Most SEOs understand that on page factors have and will continue to decline in importance within the Google algorithm and SEO. We all know that Google takes no notice of the meta keywords tag, and little notice of other tags, markups and HTML structures which has been backed up with my data. But “in content” factors [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
