PTTed
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You don't really spend time studying negative impacts of actions taken in regard to SEO. Come on man.. Nobody would do that in an effort to figure out what the opposite positive effect would be. Are you kidding me? What the?
Nobody intentionally tries to get their listing to drop 50 places in the search results just so they can try to learn how to fix it. Dude...lol You are making this stuff up. You have to be.
I am stumped trying to think up a more wasteful, inefficient, pointless method of trying to figure out what ranking factors matter.
You are commenting about a test you don't understand, and you are wrong about it. You simply don't understand it or you wouldn't be saying what you are saying. Where is this other 34% coming from?
Why are you worrying about things like CTR when you don't understand core ranking first? That is like going to an ice cream stand and saying to the girl "give me whatever kind of ice cream thingy you want all I care about is that it has chocolate sprinkles on it" And she's like - "Wait? What? What kind of ice cream do you want and do you want it in a cone or a bowl? OR do you want a milkshake or something else"
And you say - "Just gimme my chocolate sprinkles!"
You should seriously rethink the way you are testing things. Your tests can't be designed very well if you need to keep doing tests. I say that because doing the tests I described (which are downright friggin simple) you can learn years upon years worth of SEO knowledge in just a few months. You learn so much so fast that you actually run out of things to test. - Seriously
You run out of tests because you discover everything that really matters (or at least enough of it). And once you know that, you realize all this other SEO stuff is mostly a distraction. Yes some of it makes a little difference here or there (especially in low competition situations or if you are in the right scenario), but none of it matters very much compared to the big stuff. Google tells you there are 200 + ranking factors and everyone repeats it, but in reality a handful or two of things are so powerful that if you followed those things alone, you could ignore the other 190 (pick a magic number) things for the most part. Of course it depends on the situation. But I think you get my point.
I can't imagine someone running SEO tests for years and years unless they are retesting the same things over and over waiting for Google to change. Why bother? It would be a giant waste of time.
Once you learn the core factors about Google rankings, there isn't much else to learn about the algorithm. At that point you have to figure out how to implement what you learned. That's where all the mystery is. And you figure out how to acquire assets you need or the contacts you need or you look for loopholes that you can exploit. You might explore ways to automate something or systematize something. But there isn't anything left to test about the core algorithm really.
And with each passing year, because you keep seeing the same results based on your actions, the knowledge sinks in deeper and deeper with more conviction. And you realize that they aren't changing much at all when it comes to the core algorithm. They are just getting better and better at trimming out a lot of the loopholes that can be exploited easily.
