By Bill Slawski, on April 9, 2007
One of the quirks of the Web is that ideas can flow back and forth from one place to another, and pick up impetus along the way. Sometimes they get expanded into an organized effort.
A blog meme, from a Greek word for memory, is one of these organized efforts, and often happens by people sharing their thoughts or creative energies in some way after being tagged by another blogger, and then tagging others to participate.
I’ve been tagged by Michael Jensen of SoloSEO in a blog meme that has people providing five reasons why they blog and then tagging five others.
These are my five reasons:
Continue reading Five Reasons Why I Blog
By Bill Slawski, on March 17, 2007
Google’s blog search shows results in responses to searchers queries based upon a combination of relevance scores and quality scores.
The relevance scores are based upon the search query terms entered into the search box by a searcher, and use traditional styled information retrieval scores for documents. These scores could be created by looking at:
- Number of times search terms appear in a blog post.
- Places where search terms appear within the document (such as title or the text within the body of the post),
- Characteristics of search terms appearing on the pages (such as font, size, color, etc.),
- Search terms may be weighted differently from other search term when multiple search terms are present.
- Proximity of search terms when multiple search terms are present may influence the IR score, and;
- Other techniques for determining the IR score for a document can also be used.
In addition to a relevance score, the search engine looks at a quality score. A new patent application from Google discusses possible positive and negative ranking factors that might go into that quality scores that might be used by Google Blog Search, and provides some explanations for each of those factors.
Ranking blog documents
Invented by Andriy Bihun, Jason Goldman, Alex Khesin, Vinod Marur, Eduardo Morales, and Jeff Reynar
US Patent Application 20070061297
Published March 15, 2007
Filed: September 13, 2005
Continue reading Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from Google’s Blog Search (Patent Application)
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