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What kinds of research are you running right now on Google? I’m curious to know if anyone has long-term research going on? What kinds of short-term research projects are you following?
If you had a weeks unlimited time to do any research you wanted on Google, that would ultimately boost your professional skills, what would that be?
I’m freaky about research. Ongoing I’m always working on research that revolves around hubs/directories/vortals/portals/, themed and not. I have ever expanding lists of specific themed portals always striving for the highest PR.
I'm monitoring groups of pages with a single rank source (link from outside) and simple link structure.
If you find a long chain of pages that each link only to the next, and that have no links from outside the chain (apart from the first page), then the PageRank reduces at a rate of about 1 notch per 30 links.
If each page in the chain has extra links, pointing outside the chain, then PageRank reduces at a greater rate (of course). I'm hoping to 'find' such chains with different numbers of external links after the update.
> a weeks unlimited time
Does that make sense? Sorry paynt, couldn't resist.
People tend to look at the highly complex structures of the Web, where cause and effect are not straightforward. Measured comparisons of weighting, in controlled environments, would be fun. Finding the time isn't easy.
The results are pages that appear (code) to be formal reports, or chapter studies. View source reveals very clean (and valid!) html. Rendered in a browser, the pages appear as any others, i.e., text, images, etc.
I've been tweaking this since late last year and I must say the results are more than encouraging, and very interesting. Sparse code, relevant content: a good combination.
Not sure how it will work out but I think it will be pretty good.
Nick
> running right now
Monitoring spidering patterns.
Purpose: To establish why some sites are good spider food and why others are not so good.
High relevancy linking.
Purpose: To develop more effective incoming links.
>unlimited time to do any research
hehehe - simply, to test more theories with real applications.
I've been mainly working on a method of identifying banned domains and looking for a commonality between them. Some very surprising results.
well let us in....
Most of them are members of this board :)?
hehe, not one yet! A few recent members after the fact but that is part of what the board is, the answer is in your sticky.
What happens when a give set of linking sites change the context of their vote?
What happens when the votes are completely contradictory to the content of the linked page? (i.e. links say apples but site is about oranges)
Similar to that, but not with the same logic and very simplified.
It's more hunting down inter-related link sources across sectors with theme commonalities. I'm basically looking at cross-linking patterns that are working and looking to identify linking "communities."
There's one that's particularly interesting that has it's root emanating from what seems to be a hub set up specifically for that purpose.
<body>
<h1>
...can have a very positive effect on your positioning!
In addition to the above, I'm also testing some directory structure theories that have so far proven to work well.
P.S. I've been stumped by Google's caching habits!
This could be helpful in the context of the other privacy threads running right now. A measure of privacy (but not secrecy) could be gotten by entering names as "John Sm& nnnn ;th" instead of "John Smith" (although if your name is John Smith you're pretty invisible in the crowd already). :)
a highly addictive subject that has kept me busy since joining this forum.
I think the best way to approach it is:
An interesting study, I'm sure. It would be great to see how near the text needs to be to the anchor in order to help.
