In a recent post, I discussed the topic of “Industry Popularity” as a ranking factor. In this post I will elaborate on it and how it crosses into Search Engine Optimization. Industry popularity is simply what it says, the popularity of a site in relationship to its specific industry as a whole. Part of the industry popularity method includes social network use as a trigger.
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February and March were busy months for activity on the Google Datacenters. With thousands of sites in a constant flux, many marketers have been theorizing the end of static rankings as Google seems to be turning itself into a constantly changing algorithm similar to how MSN was a few months ago.
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A trip to Alexa Traffic Rankings search and there is now regional data from where most traffic is coming and Regional Alexa Ranking Positions.
Another new addition or possibly still in beta program is the Giant Map on local search results that overpower the natural results. Previously we saw regional results smaller with no map, and lately, we have huge maps that now replace the natural top 3 listings, the regional map sticks out like a sore thumb and offers yellow pages, Superpages and Google Local results all mixed up.
Looks like the latest incarnation of Netscape Communicator is now on OS X under Mozilla as Sea Monkey. I am seeing speeds that seem quicker than Camino plus all the old features of communicator and the same user interface of the older browsers.
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Google PageRank seems missing from thousands of sites, perhaps half the internet, or maybe just on sites trying to sell PageRank.
I was only hoping we would also see this anomaly on the Google home Page, but Google seems to have lost some data somewhere, let’s just hope its not used to rank sites.
