Painting by Numbers Data Visualisation may be a hot topic right now but a new poster show at London's Transport Museum reminds us that getting complex information over in attractive ways is not a new challenge for the art director or designer Figures for 1923, by Charles Shepard, 1924 Painting by numbers - making sense of statistics will feature 20 London Underground posters, many dating back to the 1930s or earlier. The posters were designed not only to promote the benefits of travelling by London Transport but also in order to wow the travelling public with details of the remarkable service they were (hopefully) enjoying every day. Here, Speed, by Alfred Leete from 1915 reminds passengers of the dizzying speeds possible on the Tube, compared to alternatives of the time. And What It Takes to Move the Passengers - Problems of the Underground, by Irene Fawkes, reminds passengers of the resources needed to make their journey. If you only read CR online, you're mising out.
PageRank Algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results. It is named after both the term "web page" and co-founder Larry Page. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages. PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. Currently, PageRank is not the only algorithm used by Google to order search results, but it is the first algorithm that was used by the company, and it is the best known.[2][3] As of September 24, 2019, all patents associated with PageRank have expired.[4] Description[edit] A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm based on the webgraph, created by all World Wide Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as edges, taking into consideration authority hubs such as cnn.com or mayoclinic.org. History[edit] Algorithm[edit] A probability is expressed as a numeric value between 0 and 1.
New York Times Exposes J.C. Penney Link Scheme That Causes Plummeting Rankings in Google Today, the New York Times published an article about a search engine optimization investigation of J.C. Penney. Perplexed by how well jcpenney.com did in unpaid (organic) search results for practically everything the retailer sold, they asked someone familiar with the world of search engine optimization (SEO) to look into it a bit more. The investigation found that thousands of seemingly unrelated web sites (many that seemed to contain only links) were linking to the J.C. Penney web site. The New York Times presented their findings to Google. J.C. So where did J.C. “Link Schemes” and the Google Webmaster Guidelines The web is big. Google was launched on a foundation of PageRank: the idea that people link to things they like and find valuable, so a page with a lot of links to it is probably more useful than a page without very many links. Over time, as site owners realized how valuable it was to rank well in Google search results, some began hatching “link schemes”. Paid Links
Powerful Groups for the New Social Era The Fresh Rank Algorithm, Is It More Important Than PageRank First of all let me confess the term ‘fresh rank’ has been stolen from fellow SEO blogger Justin Briggs, I am going to refer to one of his excellent posts throughout the rest of this one. You will no doubt know about Google’s new QDF upgrade, an algorithm tweak designed to get you to ‘fresh’ content quicker, rather than bringing up old static results. You can see an example of it here; They’re not site links but links to fresh content on the BBC for the search term ‘football’. Google has stated that this affects around 35% of search queries, don’t get that mixed up with searches. Now that is all well and good but from my point of view I want to know a few key points; 1) How does Google decide what is fresh? 2) Is the link graph involved when deciding ‘freshness’? 3) How do links from these ‘fresh’ pages influence rankings for the taget website? I wrote a really short post a few months ago based on fresh links vs text links vs links placed in old content. How Does Google Determine Freshness?
Keywords and Cocktails – 1/17 – A blog from the Razorfish London Media teamA blog from the Razorfish London Media team Viadeo, comment créer un hub ? • Cliquez sur « Groupes » >> « Gérer vos Hubs personnels » >> « Créer un Hub privé » • Saisissez le titre de votre Hub ainsi qu'un descriptif détaillé précisant à qui s'adresse ce Hub ainsi que les sujets de discussion susceptibles d'y être traités. Dans la liste des hubs, seul le nom du hub apparaît. Par exemple, mieux vaut éviter les amalgames du type : « Développement durable et marchés » et « Les marchés du développement durable ». • Précisez la catégorie de votre Hub et quelques mots clefs permettant d'afficher votre hub dans le moteur de recherche. • Précisez les modalités d'inscription : libre si toute personne invitée peut devenir membre, contrôlée si vous désirez pouvoir accepter ou refuser les adhésions de nouveaux membres. • Enfin, choisissez les rubriques à créer par défaut dans votre Hub. Gérer les demandes d’adhésions Votre communauté est un espace privatif. Si vous refusez un membre dans la communauté, celui‐ci ne pourra plus demander l’adhésion.
Google Raters - All About Google Quality Raters Wow, my post about how Google makes algorithm changes sure got a LOT of attention. While I happened to think the post itself was pretty darn informative (if I can be so humble…lol), it turns out that the majority of folks visiting just wanted a copy of the 2011 Google Quality Raters Handbook. Makes sense, but as most know by now, I was contacted by Google and had to stop sharing and linking to that document. So, let’s move on and talk about these Google Quality Raters. Who are they? Google Quality Raters are out there rating not only organic search results, but also Google ads (AdWords) and Videos, and probably more things but those are the three types of raters I am sure of. There is a good forum out there that is all “Quality Raters” info and discussion. The Raters I will be talking about today are the ones that rate the organic results – called Search Quality Raters. What Is a Google Search Quality Rater? “There are a few names for this position. Got all that? From that forum: 1. 2.
Google Launches YouTube Analytics YouTube users have been able to discover key stats on who’s watching their videos for a while now, using Insight. But now it’s replacing Insight with YouTube Analytics, which will be released to everyone over the course of today. The new features will include a new overview section which provides the key information quickly, while also enabling easy access to more detailed information. Ted Hamilton, Product Manager, also announced the following enhancements in a blog post today: More Detailed Reports: Analytics now includes more detailed statistics so that you can have a more precise understanding of your content and audiences.Audience Builders: Discover which videos are driving the most views and subscriptions.Audience Retention: See how far viewers are watching through your video in the new audience retention report. The Summary report shows some top-level performance metrics for YouTube videos, and clicking on the title of each widget will take users to that specific report:
WotWentWrong sitemaps.org - Home Pages With Too Many Ads "Above The Fold" Now Penalized By Google's "Page Layout" Algorithm Do you shove lots of ads at the top of your web pages? Think again. Tired of doing a Google search and landing on these types of pages? Rejoice. Top Heavy With Ads? The change — called the “page layout algorithm” — takes direct aim at any site with pages where content is buried under tons of ads. From Google’s post on its Inside Search blog today: We’ve heard complaints from users that if they click on a result and it’s difficult to find the actual content, they aren’t happy with the experience. Google also posted the same information to its Google Webmaster Central blog. Sites using pop-ups, pop-unders or overlay ads are not impacted by this. How Much Is Too Much? How can you tell if you’ve got too many ads above-the-fold? Instead, Cutts told me that Google is encouraging people to make use of its Google Browser Size tool or similar tools to understand how much of a page’s content (as opposed to ads) is visible at first glance to visitors under various screen resolutions. Fixed Your Ads?