{"id":141,"date":"2009-07-25T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slxls.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-07-25T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:52:06","slug":"seo-testing-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/seo-testing-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Testing Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to compare search engine ranking factors, one must choose a seo testing grounds environment.\u00c2\u00a0 These different seo testing grounds vary greatly and the ability to attribute change to a ranking factor’s level of significance also has a spread of reliabilities.\u00c2\u00a0 This post was inspired by choosing your seo testing grounds<\/a>, and it my variation of what the search engine testing ground models currently are.\u00c2\u00a0 These seo testing ground models can briefly be summarized as the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. The “real” testing ground<\/strong>: This is the serps for a key phrase or key phrases that is actually searched for by people; webmasters are constantly doing promotion work on the websites that rank for these search terms.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lot of noise and competition within this testing ground and attributing change to a seo ranking factor has a low level of reliability.<\/li>\n
  2. The “semi-real” testing ground<\/strong>: This is the serps for the search terms that contain real words with meaning, but all of the terms are rarely, if ever, combined (ex. red coconut technology).\u00c2\u00a0 This seo testing grounds provides an environment of real websites to rank against.\u00c2\u00a0 These real websites do provide the link addition and search history parameters that replicate the “real” testing ground to a point.<\/li>\n
  3. The “semi-virgin” testing ground<\/strong>: This is the serps for nonsense key phrases that are no longer optimized for.\u00c2\u00a0 Old seo contests are perfect candidates for this realm, such as seraphim proudleduck or nigritude ultramarine.\u00c2\u00a0 These testing grounds are quite useful, but they do not provide the semantic relevance or other algorithm parameters that define real serps.<\/li>\n
  4. The “virgin” testing ground<\/strong>: This is the serps of a keyword that has no results in any search engine serps prior to the test.\u00c2\u00a0 New or existing websites are used in this tests and different factors can easily be compared in this environment.\u00c2\u00a0 The seo expert performing the test completely controls this testing ground and the parameters of each website involved.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the furthest from the “real” testing ground as one can get as link addition, semantic relevance, and search history do not exist.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the variety of seo testing grounds that exist.\u00c2\u00a0 Each of these testing environments has their benefits and disadvantages.\u00c2\u00a0 The level of noise and competition within this testing grounds clearly has an effect upon the reliabilities of the results.\u00c2\u00a0 Before engaging in search engine optimization testing, pick your testing ground carefully and acknowledge the live and controlled factors within each environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In order to compare search engine ranking factors, one must choose a seo testing grounds environment.\u00c2\u00a0 These different seo testing grounds vary greatly and the ability to attribute change to a ranking factor’s level of significance also has a spread of reliabilities.\u00c2\u00a0 This post was inspired by choosing your seo testing grounds, and it my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,25,126],"tags":[127,128],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","category-testing","tag-seo-testing","tag-seo-testing-grounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}