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20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
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Published: Sep 19, 2007 - 08:21 pm
Story Found By: billslawski 1606 Days ago
Category: SEO
Last October, I wrote about "20 ways search engines might rerank search results." It was Sphunn a couple of days ago (thanks, Dave), and Danny pulled it from the "what’s new" section, because, like, it’s not new. :)

I vowed to write a sequel in the sphinn comments to that one. So here it is.
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from beanstalk 1606 Days ago #
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Thanks for the update Bill !

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from billslawski 1606 Days ago #
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You’re welcome, Dave. Thank you back. Writing this one has given me some ideas for a couple of other posts.

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from northrock 1606 Days ago #
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Great list Bill. Three of them peaked my interest this time through, 2 from Ask and one from Google dealing with rankings fluctuating according to immediate and timely signals such as web traffic, alerts and trends. Do you have any gut feeling as to how much those come into play right now for regular web results, if at all?

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from billslawski 1606 Days ago #
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Thanks, Chris. I do think that in one manner or another, timely and popular pages/news items/other objects are making their way into the top ten results based upon signals that are different from the conventional information retrieval/query independant rankng factors that we often discuss when talking about SEO. What triggers their appearance may be very similar from one search engine to another. I really like the two from Ask. As for the alerts one from Google, I’m not convinced that people sign up for alerts based upon timely news or topics as much as they do based upon their own interests, which may be selected for many other reasons than something being timely/topical/bursty.

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from TimDineen 1606 Days ago #
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Nice job - that makes 40!

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from billslawski 1606 Days ago #
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Thanks, Tim. Hopefully I’ll be able to locate an additional 20 around this time next year for an "Another 20 Ways" post. :)

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from TimDineen 1605 Days ago #
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Nice Bill - Then you’d be able to call it "The perennial 20..."

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