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By: Bill Ross

Bill Ross — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:37:57 +0000

Another great test and article. Really enjoyed the read. I don’t know if you can actually get it exactly correct with the ever changing landscape.

By: Security Bay

Security Bay — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:01:29 +0000

Creating a sterile SEO testing environment is extremely difficult, no doubt about it. What I do in my projects to achieve good measurability is to setup several subdomains with exact the same amount of incoming links from exactly the same sites. Than I allow Google several weeks to show results for the keywords in question. It works for me quite well.

By: The_man

The_man — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:58:39 +0000

What an interesting and useful post you have there. I guess this is the real SEO scientist here to apply his scientific techniques.

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By: Neyne

Neyne — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:13:06 +0000

Hey Kamo,

Thanks for stopping by and for the constructive comment. I would love to brainstorm with you on the significance of SD values before I post it. I’ll email you with the details.

Regarding the bell curve, I thought of that, but I don’t think that 10 phrases is a sample large enough to draw any significant conclusions about the normal distribution of niches. I would need a good sample of seemingly non-competitive phrases as well as some competitive ones. Now that I think of it, just deciding what the sample is could skew the results of such investigation…

By: kamo

kamo — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:32:56 +0000

Awesome post! It’s sparked a few ideas

I must say that finding the standard deviation for your NSV numbers would be immensely useful for testing out various testing grounds (ha!).

I’d also be curious to know what your normal distribution looks like (how steep is your bell curve for the NSVs)…that, along with the std deviation, can help you identify scenarios which are statistically insignificant and figure out when you’ve done enough testing to come to a conclusion.

This could be the start of a great study. Congrats!