Explaining (Some of) Google’s Algorithm with Pretty Charts & Math Stuff

Posted by randfish (NOTE: This post is written by Ben Hendrickson and Rand Fishkin as a follow up to Ben’s presentation at the Distilled/SEOmoz training seminar in London this week) Our web index, Linkscape , updated again recently, and in addition to provide the traditional stats, we thought we’d share some of the cutting edge research work we do here. Below, you’ll find a post which requires extremely close and careful reading. Correlation data doesn’t have all the answers, but it’s certainly very interesting. Likewise, the ranking models data provides a great deal of insight, but it would be dangerous to simply look at the charts without reading the post carefully

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Explaining (Some of) Google’s Algorithm with Pretty Charts & Math Stuff