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The Evolution of Google RankingsHow Google’s algorithm has changed over the years and where it’s heading in the future<br ...
At SEOmoz, we make SOFTWARE!! We don’t offer any consulting.<br />
Ranking in Google: 1999-2002<br />
On-Page Optimization<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz....
PageRank<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.elliance.com/aha/in...
PageRank<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the...
Ranking in Google: 2003 - 2005<br />
Anchor Text<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/learn...
From 1999 – 2008, What Page Ranked #1for the Queries “Exit” and “Leave”?<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-ne...
From 1999 – 2008, What Page Ranked #1for the Queries “Exit” and “Leave”?<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-ne...
Keyword Match Domain Names<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/exact-match-domains-are-far-too-powerful-is-their-time-limited<...
Registration & Historical Information<br />http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1121<br />
Topic Modeling<br />LDA correlates w/ Google rankings better than any other on-page feature<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blo...
Ranking in Google: 2006 - 2009<br />
Domain Authority<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/...
Diversity of External Link Sources<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links<b...
Nofollow, Sitemaps & Webmaster Tools<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-...
Search Quality Raters<br />http://www.seobook.com/archives/000915.shtml<br />
Ranking in Google: 2009 - 2011<br />
Twitter Data<br />Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal ...
Twitter Data<br />Page A<br />646 links from 36 root domains<br />2 tweets<br />Page B<br />1 link from 1 root domain<br /...
Twitter Clearly Influencing Google<br />Page B – the tweeted version – ranks #1!<br />Page A<br />646 links from 36 root d...
Twitter Data is Very Powerful in QDF<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />ht...
Don’t Try Abusing Twitter for SEO<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http:...
Author Authority<br />Danny Sullivan: Do you try to calculate the authority of someone who tweets that might be assigned t...
Facebook Likes & Shares<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-marketing-ultimate-guide<br />
Brand Signals<br />Brands<br />Generics<br /><ul><li> Have real people working at a physical address
Have authentic, followed social accounts
Display obvious, robust contact information
Register with government/civic organizations
Receive traffic from diverse sources
Generate branded search query volume
Run offline marketing/advertising campaigns
Often exist only online
Rarely have significant social accounts
Frequently use email forms only
Stay “under the radar”
Search is often 90%+ of traffic
Have little-no branded search demand
Ignore the offline world</li></ul>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals<br />
Entity Association<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals<br />
User & Usage Behavior<br />http://www.quora.com/Did-Bing-intentionally-copy-Googles-search-results<br />
How the Search Ranking Factors Have Changed in the Eyes of Experts<br />
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors<br />
New data will be available on SEOmoz in April, 2011<br />
Big Changes from 2009 to 2011<br /><ul><li> Link-Based Factors are no longer 60%+ of the equation!
Social Data is perceived to be a significant player
Page-Level Link Metrics Fell the Most (43% - 22%)
Keyword-Level Domain Metrics, Brand Data + Social Rose
The Survey itself asked for more detail/specificity(which may be responsible for some of these shifts)</li></ul>The new v...
A Look at Google’s “Farmer”(aka “Panda”) Update<br />
Sites that Lost Visibility<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<br />
Sites that Gained Visibility<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<br />
From the Mouths of Googlers<br />Wired.com: How do you recognize a shallow-content site? <br />Singhal: (W)e asked the rat...
From the Mouths of Googlers<br />Wired.com: But how do you implement that algorithmically?<br />Cutts: I think you look fo...
Links Didn’t Seem to Have Much Impact<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<...
How Google’s Interface Has Evolved<br />
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Rand Fishkin's presentation from Be Wizard, San Marino 2011 on the evolution of Google's rankings and how marketers can optimize for the next generation of ranking signals.

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The Evolution of Google's Rankings

  1. The Evolution of Google RankingsHow Google’s algorithm has changed over the years and where it’s heading in the future<br />Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz CEO, March 2011<br />
  2. At SEOmoz, we make SOFTWARE!! We don’t offer any consulting.<br />
  3. Ranking in Google: 1999-2002<br />
  4. On-Page Optimization<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization<br />
  5. PageRank<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.elliance.com/aha/infographics/Google-PageRank-Explained.aspx<br />
  6. PageRank<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-science-of-ranking-correlations<br />
  7. Ranking in Google: 2003 - 2005<br />
  8. Anchor Text<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/anchor-text<br />
  9. From 1999 – 2008, What Page Ranked #1for the Queries “Exit” and “Leave”?<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://searchengineland.com/google-kills-bushs-miserable-failure-search-other-google-bombs-10363<br />
  10. From 1999 – 2008, What Page Ranked #1for the Queries “Exit” and “Leave”?<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://searchengineland.com/google-kills-bushs-miserable-failure-search-other-google-bombs-10363<br />
  11. Keyword Match Domain Names<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/exact-match-domains-are-far-too-powerful-is-their-time-limited<br />
  12. Registration & Historical Information<br />http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1121<br />
  13. Topic Modeling<br />LDA correlates w/ Google rankings better than any other on-page feature<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/content-optimization-revisiting-topic-modeling-lda-our-labs-tool<br />
  14. Ranking in Google: 2006 - 2009<br />
  15. Domain Authority<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics<br />
  16. Diversity of External Link Sources<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links<br />
  17. Nofollow, Sitemaps & Webmaster Tools<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-cant-do-it-with-nofollow<br />
  18. Search Quality Raters<br />http://www.seobook.com/archives/000915.shtml<br />
  19. Ranking in Google: 2009 - 2011<br />
  20. Twitter Data<br />Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?<br />Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how many people shared an article <br />http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389<br />
  21. Twitter Data<br />Page A<br />646 links from 36 root domains<br />2 tweets<br />Page B<br />1 link from 1 root domain<br />522 tweets<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-do-tweets-influence-search-rankings-an-experiment-for-a-cause<br />
  22. Twitter Clearly Influencing Google<br />Page B – the tweeted version – ranks #1!<br />Page A<br />646 links from 36 root domains<br />2 tweets<br />Page B<br />1 link from 1 root domain<br />522 tweets<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-do-tweets-influence-search-rankings-an-experiment-for-a-cause<br />
  23. Twitter Data is Very Powerful in QDF<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tweets-effect-rankings-unexpected-case-study<br />
  24. Don’t Try Abusing Twitter for SEO<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tweets-effect-rankings-unexpected-case-study#jtc133590<br />
  25. Author Authority<br />Danny Sullivan: Do you try to calculate the authority of someone who tweets that might be assigned to their Twitter page. Do you try to “know,” if you will, who they are?<br />Bing: Yes. We do calculate the authority of someone who tweets. For known public figures or publishers, we do associate them with who they are. (For example, query for Danny Sullivan)<br />Google: Yes we do compute and use author quality. We don’t know who anyone is in real life :-)<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389<br />
  26. Facebook Likes & Shares<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-marketing-ultimate-guide<br />
  27. Brand Signals<br />Brands<br />Generics<br /><ul><li> Have real people working at a physical address
  28. Have authentic, followed social accounts
  29. Display obvious, robust contact information
  30. Register with government/civic organizations
  31. Receive traffic from diverse sources
  32. Generate branded search query volume
  33. Run offline marketing/advertising campaigns
  34. Often exist only online
  35. Rarely have significant social accounts
  36. Frequently use email forms only
  37. Stay “under the radar”
  38. Search is often 90%+ of traffic
  39. Have little-no branded search demand
  40. Ignore the offline world</li></ul>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals<br />
  41. Entity Association<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals<br />
  42. User & Usage Behavior<br />http://www.quora.com/Did-Bing-intentionally-copy-Googles-search-results<br />
  43. How the Search Ranking Factors Have Changed in the Eyes of Experts<br />
  44. http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors<br />
  45. New data will be available on SEOmoz in April, 2011<br />
  46. Big Changes from 2009 to 2011<br /><ul><li> Link-Based Factors are no longer 60%+ of the equation!
  47. Social Data is perceived to be a significant player
  48. Page-Level Link Metrics Fell the Most (43% - 22%)
  49. Keyword-Level Domain Metrics, Brand Data + Social Rose
  50. The Survey itself asked for more detail/specificity(which may be responsible for some of these shifts)</li></ul>The new version of the ranking factors will be online in April, 2011<br />
  51. A Look at Google’s “Farmer”(aka “Panda”) Update<br />
  52. Sites that Lost Visibility<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<br />
  53. Sites that Gained Visibility<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<br />
  54. From the Mouths of Googlers<br />Wired.com: How do you recognize a shallow-content site? <br />Singhal: (W)e asked the raters questions like: “Would you be comfortable giving this site your credit card? Would you be comfortable giving medicine prescribed by this site to your kids?”<br />Cutts: (Using) a rigorous set of questions, everything from. “Do you consider this site to be authoritative? Would it be okay if this was in a magazine? Does this site have excessive ads?”<br />Singhal: And based on that, we basically formed some definition of what could be considered low quality. <br />http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/the-panda-that-hates-farms/all/1<br />
  55. From the Mouths of Googlers<br />Wired.com: But how do you implement that algorithmically?<br />Cutts: I think you look for signals that recreate that same intuition, that same experience that you have as an engineer and that users have. <br />Singhal: You can imagine in a hyperspace a bunch of points, some points are red, some points are green, and in others there’s some mixture. Your job is to find a plane which says that most things on this side of the place are red, and most of the things on that side of the plane are the opposite of red.<br />http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/the-panda-that-hates-farms/all/1<br />
  56. Links Didn’t Seem to Have Much Impact<br />http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers<br />
  57. How Google’s Interface Has Evolved<br />
  58. Old Google SERPs<br />
  59. Google SERPs Today<br />
  60. Google SERPs Tomorrow<br />
  61. How Search Marketers Can Evolve<br />
  62. Don’t “Look” Like a Content Farm<br />http://www.suite101.com/content/canada-awarded-fifa-2015-womens-world-cup-of-soccerfootball-a356303<br />
  63. Don’t “Look” Like a Content Farm<br />http://hubpages.com/hub/WomensFashionsofthe1920-FlappersandtheJazz-Age<br />
  64. Watch Out for “Classic” SEO Tactics<br />Directory Link Building<br />Keyword-Variant Abuse<br />Reciprocal Link Pages<br />Paid Links w/ Manipulative Anchor Text<br />Sitewide, Footer Links<br />Navigation for Engines, Not Humans<br />Low Cost/Quality, Outsourced Content<br />Generic Design and Layout<br />Anchor-Text Rich Internal Links<br />Anonymous Contact Forms<br />Keyword Stuffed Titles + Pages<br />Ad Blocks Dominating the Page<br />It’s great to do good SEO, just don’t look like the only reason the site exists is to draw Google traffic<br />
  65. Become a “Brand”<br />Brands<br />Generics<br /><ul><li> Have real people working at a physical address
  66. Have authentic, followed social accounts
  67. Display obvious, robust contact information
  68. Register with government/civic organizations
  69. Receive traffic from diverse sources
  70. Generate branded search query volume
  71. Run offline marketing/advertising campaigns
  72. Often exist only online
  73. Rarely have significant social accounts
  74. Frequently use email forms only
  75. Stay “under the radar”
  76. Search is often 90%+ of traffic
  77. Have little-no branded search demand
  78. Ignore the offline world</li></ul>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals<br />
  79. Find Where Top Brands Earn Citations<br />Where do these brands earn their links?<br />http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html<br />http://www.opensiteexplorer.org<br />
  80. Investigate Brand “Mention” Sources<br />Facebook page<br />Blippr?<br />Crunchbase profile<br />App profile on Blackberry<br />Twitter account<br />BusinessWeek Profile<br />Chrome Extension<br />Mashable Article<br />
  81. Focus on the User, But Don’t Forget the Engines<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/business/media/11search.html<br />
  82. Take Advantage of New Opportunities<br />http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html<br />
  83. Take Advantage of New Opportunities<br />http://www.9e3k.com/9e3k/monday-meme-yoda-spreads-some-9e3k-love/<br />
  84. Take Advantage of New Opportunities<br />http://outspokenmedia.com/social-media/quora-hipsters/<br />
  85. Embrace All of Inbound Marketing<br />News/Media/PR<br />SEO<br />Email<br />Research/White Papers<br />Blogs + Blogging<br />Infographics<br />Comment Marketing<br />Social Networks<br />Online Video<br />INBOUND MARKETING!(AKA all the “free” traffic sources)<br />Webinars<br />Forums<br />Document Sharing<br />Social Bookmarking<br />Word of Mouth<br />Podcasting<br />Direct/Referring Links<br />Type-In Traffic<br />Q+A Sites<br />
  86. Q+A<br />Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-Founder, SEOmoz<br /><ul><li> Twitter: @randfish
  87. Blog: www.seomoz.org/blog
  88. Email: rand@seomoz.org</li></ul>You can now try SEOmoz PRO Free!<br />http://www.seomoz.org/freetrial<br />
  89. Summary of This Presentation<br />The Evolution and Future of Google’s Rankings:<br /><ul><li> Where Google’s Been in the Past (1999-2010)
  90. New Signals in Google: Social Media, User Data & Brand Signals
  91. The Evolution of the Search Engine Results Interface
  92. What Marketers Must Do to Keep Up with Google’s Evolution</li>

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