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Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com
Why Great Marketers
Must Be Great Skeptics
This Presentation Is Online Here:
bit.ly/mozskeptics
Great Skepticism
Defining
I have some depressing news…
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Does anyone in this room believe that the Earth
doesn’t revolve around the Sun?
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
The Earth (and everything
in the solar system,
including the Sun) revolves
around our system’s
gravitational Barycenter,
which is only sometimes
near the center of the Sun.
Let’s try a more
marketing-centric example...
In 2009, Conversion
Rate Experts built us a
new landing page, and
increased our
subscribers by nearly
25%. What did they do?
Via CRE’s Case Study
One of the most
commonly cited facts
about CRE’s work is the
“long landing page.”
The Crap Skeptic The Good Skeptic The Great Skeptic
Let’s change our
landing page to
be a long one
right now!
We should A/B
test a long
landing page in
our conversion
funnel.
How do we know
page length was
responsible? What
else changed?
The Crap Skeptic The Good Skeptic The Great Skeptic
“I do believe sadly it’s
going to take some
diseases coming back to
realize that we need to
change and develop
vaccines that are safe.”
“Listen, all magic is
scientific principals
presented like "mystical
hoodoo" which is fun,
but it's sort of
irresponsible.”
"The good thing about
science is that it's true
whether or not you
believe in it."
In fact, we’ve changed our
landing pages numerous
times to shorter versions and
seen equal success. Length, it
would seem, was not the
primary factor in this page’s
success.
What separates the crap, good, & great?
Assumes one belief-reinforcing
data point is evidence enough
Doesn’t question what’s truly
causal vs. merely correlated
Doesn’t seek to validate
Doesn’t make assumptions about
why a result occurred
Knows that correlation isn’t
necessarily causal
Validates assumptions w/ data
Seeks to discover the reasons
underlying the results
Knows that correlation
doesn’t imply causality
Thoroughly validates, but doesn’t
let imperfect knowledge stop
progress
Will more conversion tests
lead to better results?
Testing
Obviously the more tests we
run, the better we can
optimize our pages. We
need to build a “culture of
testing” around here.
Via Wordstream’s What is a Good Conversion Rate?
Via Wordstream’s What is a Good Conversion Rate?
Do Those Who Test More Really Perform Better?
Hmm… There’s no correlation
between those who run more
tests across more pages and
those who have higher
conversion rates. Maybe the
number of tests isn’t the right
goal.
Via Factors That Drive How Quickly You Can Run New Online Tests
Trust
Word of Mouth
Likability
Design
Associations
Word of Mouth
Amount of Pain
CTAs
UX
Effort Required
Process
Historical Experiences
Social Proof
Copywriting
CONVERSION DECISION
Timing
Discovery Path
Branding
Price
(it’s a complex process)
How do we know where our
conversion problems lie?
Ask Smart Questions to the Right People
Potential Customers
Who Didn’t Buy
Those Who Tried/Bought But
Didn’t Love It
Customers Who
Bought & Loved It
Professional,
demographic, &
psychographic
characteristics
Professional, demographic, &
psychographic characteristics
Professional,
demographic, &
psychographic
characteristics
What objections did you
have to buying?
What objections did you have;
how did you overcome them?
What objections did
you overcome; how?What would have made you
stay/love the product?
What would have made
you overcome them?
What do you love
most? Can we share?
We can start by targeting
the right kinds of
customers. Trying to please
everyone is a recipe for
disaster.
Our tests should be
focused around
overcoming the
objections of the people
who best match our
customer profiles
Testing button colors
Testing headlines, copy,
visuals, & form fields
Designing for how customers
think about their problems &
your solution
THIS!
Does telling users we
encrypt data scare them?
Security
Via Visual Website Optimizer
Could this
actually HURT
conversion?
Via Visual Website Optimizer
Via Visual Website Optimizer
A/B Test Results
They found that without the secure icon had over
400% improvement on conversions as compared
to having the image.
[Note: results ARE statistically significant]
We need to remove the
security messages on our
site ASAP!
We should test this.
Is this the most meaningful test we
can perform right now?
(I’m not saying it isn’t, just that we
should prioritize intelligently)
Via Kayak’s Most Interesting A/B Test
vs.
Via Kayak’s Most Interesting A/B Test
A/B Test Results
“So we decided to do our own experiment about this
and we actually found the opposite that when we
removed the messaging, people tended to book less.”
- Vinayak Ranade, Director of Engineering for Mobile, KAYAK
Good thing we
tested!
Good thing we
tested!
Your evidence is
no match for my
ignorance!
What should we expect
from sharing our content
on social media?
Social CTR
Just find the average social
CTRs and then try to match
them or do better. No
brainer.
Via Signup.to’s Analysis of CTR on Twitter
Via Signup.to’s Analysis of CTR on Twitter
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
306/701 = 43.6%... WTF??
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Phew! We’re not alone.
Via Chartbeat
Assuming social metrics and
engagement correlate was a
flawed assumption. We need
to find a better way to measure
and improve social sharing.
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
OK. We can create some
benchmarks based on these
numbers and their averages,
then work to improve them over
time.
That is an insane amount
of variability!
There are other factors at work
here. We need to understand
them before we can create
smart metrics or useful
expectations
Timing
Source
Audience Affinity
Formatting
Network-Created
Limitations to Visibility
Brand
Reach
Traffic
Engagement
Let’s start by examining the data
and impacts of timing.
Via Facebook Insights
Via Followerwonk
Via Google Analytics
There’s a lot of nuance, but we
can certainly see how
messages sent at certain times
reach different sizes and
populations of our audience.
Comparing a tweet or share sent
at 9am Pacific against tweets
and shares sent at 11pm Pacific
will give us misleading data.
But, we now know three things:
#1 - When our audience is online
#2 – Sharing just once is suboptimal
#3 – To be a great skeptic (and
marketer), we should attempt to
understand each of these inputs with
similar rigorousness
Do they work? Can we make
them more effective?
Share Buttons
After relentless testing, OKTrends found that the
following share buttons worked best:
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
OKTrends found that removing all but a
single button (the “like” on Facebook) had
the most positive effect.
And that waiting until the visitor had scrolled
to the bottom of the article produced the
highest number of actions
We should remove all our
social sharing buttons and
replace them with a single
slide-over social CTA for
Facebook likes!
Buzzfeed has also done a tremendous amount of social
button testing & optimization…
And sometimes they do this…
And sometimes this…
Is Buzzfeed still in testing mode?
Nope.
They’ve found it’s best to show different buttons
based on both the type of content and how you
reached the site.
OK… Well, then let’s do
that… Do it now!
Testing a small number of the
most impactful social button
changes should produce
enough evidence to give us a
direction to pursue.
Buzzfeed & OKTrends share several
unique qualities:
1) They have huge amounts of
social traffic
2) Social shares are integral to their
business model
3) The content they create is
optimized for social sharing
Unless we also fit a number of
these criteria, I have to ask again:
Is this the most meaningful test
we can perform right now?
BTW – it is true that testing social
buttons can coincide with a lot of
other tests (since it’s on content
vs. the funnel), but dev resources
and marketing bandwidth
probably are not infinite 
Does it still work better
than standard link text?
Anchor Text
Psh. Anchor text links
obviously work. Otherwise
Google wouldn’t be
penalizing all these sites for
getting them.
It has been a while since we’ve
seen a public test of anchor text.
And there’s no way to know for
sure how powerful it still is.
Testing in Google is very, very hard.
There’s so many confounding
variables – we’d have to choose our
criteria carefully and repeat the test
multiple times to feel confident of any
result.
1) Three word, informational keyword phrase with relatively light
competition and stable rankings
Test Conditions:
2) We selected two results (“A” and “B”), ranking #13 (“A”) and
#20 ( “B”) in logged-out, non-personalized results
3) We pointed links from 20 pages on 20 unique, high-DA, high-
trust, off-topic sites at both “A” and “B”
A) We pointed 20 links from 20
domains at this result with anchor
text exactly matching the query
phrase
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
B) We pointed 20 links from the
same 20 pages as “A” to this URL
with anchor text that did not contain
any words in the query
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
After 20 days, all of the links had
been indexed by Google. “A” and “B”
both moved up 4 positions. None of
the other results moved more than 2
positions.
See? Told you it works.
While both results moved up the
same number of positions, it’s
almost certainly the case that #13
to #9 was against more serious
challengers, and thus anchor text
would seem to make a difference.
That said, I’d want to repeat this a
few times.
Princess Bubblegum and I are in
agreement. We should do the test
at least 2-3 more times keeping as
many variables as possible the
same.
1) Three word, informational keyword phrase with relatively light
competition and stable rankings
Early Results from a Second Test:
2) We selected two results (“A” and “B”), ranking #20 (“A”) and
#14 ( “B”) in logged-out, non-personalized results
3) We pointed links from 20 pages on 20 unique, high-DA, high-
trust, off-topic sites at both “A” and “B”
B) We pointed 20 links from 20
domains to this URL with anchor
text that did not contain any words
in the query
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
A) We pointed 20 links from the
same pages/domains at this result
with anchor text exactly matching
the query phrase
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
After 16 days, all of the links
had been indexed by Google.
“A” moved up 19 positions to
#1! B moved up 5 positions to
#9. None of the other results
moved more than 2 positions.
Good thing we
tested!
This is looking more
conclusive, but we
should run at least
one more test.
Anchor text =
rankings. Stick a
fork in it!
Does it influence Google’s non-
personalized search rankings?
Google+
Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post
Google+ is just too damn high.
Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post
From a comment Matt Cutts left on the blog post:
“Most of the initial discussion on this thread seemed to take from the blog
post the idea that more Google +1s led to higher web ranking. I wanted to
preemptively tackle that perception.”
Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post
To me, that’s Google working really hard to NOT say “we don’t use any data
from Google+ (directly or indirectly) at all in our ranking algorithms.” I would
be very surprised if they said that.
Google explicitly SAID +1s
don’t affect rankings. You
think they’d lie so blatantly?
As if.
The correlations are surprisingly
high for something with no
connection. There have been
several tests showing no result,
but if all it takes is a Google+ post,
let’s do it!
First, remember how hard it is to
prove causality with a public test
like this. And second, don’t let
anything but consistent, repeatable,
provable results sway your opinion.
Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
#21
#22
#23
#24
#25
#26
At 10:50am, the test URL ranked
#26 in logged-out, non-
personalized, non-geo-biased,
Google US results.
42 minutes later, after ~30
shares, 40 +1s, and several
other G+ accounts posting
the link, the target moved up
to position #23
#21
#22
#23
#24
#25
#26
#21
#22
#23
#24
#25
#26
48 hours later, after 100 shares
of the post, 95 +1s, and tons of
additional posts, the result was
back down to #25
At least we proved one thing –
the Google+ community is
awesome. Nearly 50 people
shared the URL in their own
posts on G+!
Many G+ users
personalized results,
however, were clearly
affected.
#21
#22
#23
#24
#25
#26
#27
#28
#29
#30
Something very strange is
happening in relation to the test
URL in my personalized results,
though. It’s actually ranking
LOWER than in non-personalized
results.
Could Google be donking up the test?
Sadly, it’s impossible to know.
GASP!!! The posts did move
the result up, then someone
from Google must have
seen it and is messing with
you!!!
Sigh… It’s possible that Jenny’s
right, but impossible to prove. We
don’t know for sure what caused
the initial movement, nor can we
say what’s causing the weird
personalized results.
More testing is needed, but how
you do it without any potential
monkey wrenches is going to be a
big challenge.
That said, remember this:
Phew! We’re not alone.
Via Chartbeat
If I were Google, I wouldn’t use
Google+ activity by itself to rank
anything, but I would connect G+
to my other data sources and
potentially increase a page’s
rankings if many pieces of data
told a story of engagement &
value for visitors.
Ready to Be Your Own Skeptic?
Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com
bit.ly/mozskeptics

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Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics

  • 1. Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com Why Great Marketers Must Be Great Skeptics
  • 2. This Presentation Is Online Here: bit.ly/mozskeptics
  • 4. I have some depressing news…
  • 7. Does anyone in this room believe that the Earth doesn’t revolve around the Sun?
  • 9. The Earth (and everything in the solar system, including the Sun) revolves around our system’s gravitational Barycenter, which is only sometimes near the center of the Sun.
  • 10. Let’s try a more marketing-centric example...
  • 11. In 2009, Conversion Rate Experts built us a new landing page, and increased our subscribers by nearly 25%. What did they do? Via CRE’s Case Study
  • 12. One of the most commonly cited facts about CRE’s work is the “long landing page.”
  • 13. The Crap Skeptic The Good Skeptic The Great Skeptic Let’s change our landing page to be a long one right now! We should A/B test a long landing page in our conversion funnel. How do we know page length was responsible? What else changed?
  • 14. The Crap Skeptic The Good Skeptic The Great Skeptic “I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.” “Listen, all magic is scientific principals presented like "mystical hoodoo" which is fun, but it's sort of irresponsible.” "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
  • 15. In fact, we’ve changed our landing pages numerous times to shorter versions and seen equal success. Length, it would seem, was not the primary factor in this page’s success.
  • 16. What separates the crap, good, & great?
  • 17. Assumes one belief-reinforcing data point is evidence enough Doesn’t question what’s truly causal vs. merely correlated Doesn’t seek to validate
  • 18. Doesn’t make assumptions about why a result occurred Knows that correlation isn’t necessarily causal Validates assumptions w/ data
  • 19. Seeks to discover the reasons underlying the results Knows that correlation doesn’t imply causality Thoroughly validates, but doesn’t let imperfect knowledge stop progress
  • 20. Will more conversion tests lead to better results? Testing
  • 21. Obviously the more tests we run, the better we can optimize our pages. We need to build a “culture of testing” around here.
  • 22. Via Wordstream’s What is a Good Conversion Rate?
  • 23. Via Wordstream’s What is a Good Conversion Rate? Do Those Who Test More Really Perform Better?
  • 24. Hmm… There’s no correlation between those who run more tests across more pages and those who have higher conversion rates. Maybe the number of tests isn’t the right goal.
  • 25. Via Factors That Drive How Quickly You Can Run New Online Tests
  • 26. Trust Word of Mouth Likability Design Associations Word of Mouth Amount of Pain CTAs UX Effort Required Process Historical Experiences Social Proof Copywriting CONVERSION DECISION Timing Discovery Path Branding Price (it’s a complex process)
  • 27. How do we know where our conversion problems lie?
  • 28. Ask Smart Questions to the Right People Potential Customers Who Didn’t Buy Those Who Tried/Bought But Didn’t Love It Customers Who Bought & Loved It Professional, demographic, & psychographic characteristics Professional, demographic, & psychographic characteristics Professional, demographic, & psychographic characteristics What objections did you have to buying? What objections did you have; how did you overcome them? What objections did you overcome; how?What would have made you stay/love the product? What would have made you overcome them? What do you love most? Can we share?
  • 29. We can start by targeting the right kinds of customers. Trying to please everyone is a recipe for disaster.
  • 30. Our tests should be focused around overcoming the objections of the people who best match our customer profiles
  • 33. Designing for how customers think about their problems & your solution
  • 34. THIS!
  • 35. Does telling users we encrypt data scare them? Security
  • 36. Via Visual Website Optimizer Could this actually HURT conversion?
  • 37. Via Visual Website Optimizer
  • 38. Via Visual Website Optimizer A/B Test Results They found that without the secure icon had over 400% improvement on conversions as compared to having the image. [Note: results ARE statistically significant]
  • 39. We need to remove the security messages on our site ASAP!
  • 40. We should test this.
  • 41. Is this the most meaningful test we can perform right now? (I’m not saying it isn’t, just that we should prioritize intelligently)
  • 42. Via Kayak’s Most Interesting A/B Test vs.
  • 43. Via Kayak’s Most Interesting A/B Test A/B Test Results “So we decided to do our own experiment about this and we actually found the opposite that when we removed the messaging, people tended to book less.” - Vinayak Ranade, Director of Engineering for Mobile, KAYAK
  • 44. Good thing we tested! Good thing we tested! Your evidence is no match for my ignorance!
  • 45. What should we expect from sharing our content on social media? Social CTR
  • 46. Just find the average social CTRs and then try to match them or do better. No brainer.
  • 47. Via Signup.to’s Analysis of CTR on Twitter
  • 48. Via Signup.to’s Analysis of CTR on Twitter
  • 53. Phew! We’re not alone. Via Chartbeat
  • 54. Assuming social metrics and engagement correlate was a flawed assumption. We need to find a better way to measure and improve social sharing.
  • 58. OK. We can create some benchmarks based on these numbers and their averages, then work to improve them over time.
  • 59. That is an insane amount of variability!
  • 60. There are other factors at work here. We need to understand them before we can create smart metrics or useful expectations
  • 62. Let’s start by examining the data and impacts of timing.
  • 66. There’s a lot of nuance, but we can certainly see how messages sent at certain times reach different sizes and populations of our audience.
  • 67. Comparing a tweet or share sent at 9am Pacific against tweets and shares sent at 11pm Pacific will give us misleading data.
  • 68. But, we now know three things: #1 - When our audience is online #2 – Sharing just once is suboptimal #3 – To be a great skeptic (and marketer), we should attempt to understand each of these inputs with similar rigorousness
  • 69. Do they work? Can we make them more effective? Share Buttons
  • 70. After relentless testing, OKTrends found that the following share buttons worked best:
  • 73. OKTrends found that removing all but a single button (the “like” on Facebook) had the most positive effect.
  • 74. And that waiting until the visitor had scrolled to the bottom of the article produced the highest number of actions
  • 75. We should remove all our social sharing buttons and replace them with a single slide-over social CTA for Facebook likes!
  • 76. Buzzfeed has also done a tremendous amount of social button testing & optimization…
  • 77. And sometimes they do this…
  • 79. Is Buzzfeed still in testing mode?
  • 80. Nope. They’ve found it’s best to show different buttons based on both the type of content and how you reached the site.
  • 81. OK… Well, then let’s do that… Do it now!
  • 82. Testing a small number of the most impactful social button changes should produce enough evidence to give us a direction to pursue.
  • 83. Buzzfeed & OKTrends share several unique qualities: 1) They have huge amounts of social traffic 2) Social shares are integral to their business model 3) The content they create is optimized for social sharing
  • 84. Unless we also fit a number of these criteria, I have to ask again: Is this the most meaningful test we can perform right now?
  • 85. BTW – it is true that testing social buttons can coincide with a lot of other tests (since it’s on content vs. the funnel), but dev resources and marketing bandwidth probably are not infinite 
  • 86. Does it still work better than standard link text? Anchor Text
  • 87. Psh. Anchor text links obviously work. Otherwise Google wouldn’t be penalizing all these sites for getting them.
  • 88. It has been a while since we’ve seen a public test of anchor text. And there’s no way to know for sure how powerful it still is.
  • 89. Testing in Google is very, very hard. There’s so many confounding variables – we’d have to choose our criteria carefully and repeat the test multiple times to feel confident of any result.
  • 90. 1) Three word, informational keyword phrase with relatively light competition and stable rankings Test Conditions: 2) We selected two results (“A” and “B”), ranking #13 (“A”) and #20 ( “B”) in logged-out, non-personalized results 3) We pointed links from 20 pages on 20 unique, high-DA, high- trust, off-topic sites at both “A” and “B”
  • 91. A) We pointed 20 links from 20 domains at this result with anchor text exactly matching the query phrase #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 B) We pointed 20 links from the same 20 pages as “A” to this URL with anchor text that did not contain any words in the query
  • 92. #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 After 20 days, all of the links had been indexed by Google. “A” and “B” both moved up 4 positions. None of the other results moved more than 2 positions.
  • 93. See? Told you it works.
  • 94. While both results moved up the same number of positions, it’s almost certainly the case that #13 to #9 was against more serious challengers, and thus anchor text would seem to make a difference. That said, I’d want to repeat this a few times.
  • 95. Princess Bubblegum and I are in agreement. We should do the test at least 2-3 more times keeping as many variables as possible the same.
  • 96. 1) Three word, informational keyword phrase with relatively light competition and stable rankings Early Results from a Second Test: 2) We selected two results (“A” and “B”), ranking #20 (“A”) and #14 ( “B”) in logged-out, non-personalized results 3) We pointed links from 20 pages on 20 unique, high-DA, high- trust, off-topic sites at both “A” and “B”
  • 97. B) We pointed 20 links from 20 domains to this URL with anchor text that did not contain any words in the query #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 A) We pointed 20 links from the same pages/domains at this result with anchor text exactly matching the query phrase
  • 98. #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 After 16 days, all of the links had been indexed by Google. “A” moved up 19 positions to #1! B moved up 5 positions to #9. None of the other results moved more than 2 positions.
  • 99. Good thing we tested! This is looking more conclusive, but we should run at least one more test. Anchor text = rankings. Stick a fork in it!
  • 100. Does it influence Google’s non- personalized search rankings? Google+
  • 101. Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post Google+ is just too damn high.
  • 102. Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post From a comment Matt Cutts left on the blog post: “Most of the initial discussion on this thread seemed to take from the blog post the idea that more Google +1s led to higher web ranking. I wanted to preemptively tackle that perception.”
  • 103. Good discussion about Google+ correlations in this post To me, that’s Google working really hard to NOT say “we don’t use any data from Google+ (directly or indirectly) at all in our ranking algorithms.” I would be very surprised if they said that.
  • 104. Google explicitly SAID +1s don’t affect rankings. You think they’d lie so blatantly? As if.
  • 105. The correlations are surprisingly high for something with no connection. There have been several tests showing no result, but if all it takes is a Google+ post, let’s do it!
  • 106. First, remember how hard it is to prove causality with a public test like this. And second, don’t let anything but consistent, repeatable, provable results sway your opinion.
  • 108. #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 At 10:50am, the test URL ranked #26 in logged-out, non- personalized, non-geo-biased, Google US results.
  • 109. 42 minutes later, after ~30 shares, 40 +1s, and several other G+ accounts posting the link, the target moved up to position #23 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26
  • 110. #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 48 hours later, after 100 shares of the post, 95 +1s, and tons of additional posts, the result was back down to #25
  • 111. At least we proved one thing – the Google+ community is awesome. Nearly 50 people shared the URL in their own posts on G+!
  • 112. Many G+ users personalized results, however, were clearly affected.
  • 113. #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 Something very strange is happening in relation to the test URL in my personalized results, though. It’s actually ranking LOWER than in non-personalized results.
  • 114. Could Google be donking up the test? Sadly, it’s impossible to know.
  • 115. GASP!!! The posts did move the result up, then someone from Google must have seen it and is messing with you!!!
  • 116. Sigh… It’s possible that Jenny’s right, but impossible to prove. We don’t know for sure what caused the initial movement, nor can we say what’s causing the weird personalized results.
  • 117. More testing is needed, but how you do it without any potential monkey wrenches is going to be a big challenge. That said, remember this:
  • 118. Phew! We’re not alone. Via Chartbeat
  • 119. If I were Google, I wouldn’t use Google+ activity by itself to rank anything, but I would connect G+ to my other data sources and potentially increase a page’s rankings if many pieces of data told a story of engagement & value for visitors.
  • 120. Ready to Be Your Own Skeptic?
  • 121. Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com bit.ly/mozskeptics