Showing posts with label Panda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panda. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

23 Questions from Google on "Quality" Rankings

Without disclosing anything about its algorithms, here are 23 questions Google suggests content creators think about when creating content that Google's algorithms will tend to rank favorably. 


The questions are analogous to what Google's algorithms try to do when assessing the "quality" of a page or an article.


"Our advice for publishers continues to be to focus on delivering the best possible user experience on your websites and not to focus too much on what they think are Google’s current ranking algorithms or signals," Google says . "Some publishers have fixated on our prior Panda algorithm change, but Panda was just one of roughly 500 search improvements we expect to roll out to search this year."

"In fact, since we launched Panda, we've rolled out over a dozen additional tweaks to our ranking algorithms, and some sites have incorrectly assumed that changes in their rankings were related to Panda. Search is a complicated and evolving art and science, so rather than focusing on specific algorithmic tweaks, we encourage you to focus on delivering the best possible experience for users."

Yes, Follow the Data. Even if it Does Not Fit Your Agenda

When people argue we need to “follow the science” that should be true in all cases, not only in cases where the data fits one’s political pr...