User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox11
Why do CZ articles sometimes fail to appear in Google searches? I looked at various CZ articles, created at different times by different people, looked at different variables such as # revisions, # contributors, creation date (sortable format, so later dates are numerically higher). For each, I typed this into a google searchbar, putting the exact article name in quotes:
"Exact article name" citizendium
What rank did each one get? The rank is the entry number; so if it appeared on the first page in the fourth slot, it got a rank of "4"; I counted subgroups too. If it didn't appear after a page or two of searching, I put 9999 meaning I didn't find it.
My working hypothesis is: CZ's Related Article subpages CONFUSE Google's crawlers. They have trouble figuring what links to what. As a result, CZ's internal links are TOO COMPLEX and CZ's web presence is harmed as a result.
| CZ article title | Date created (eg 200707 = July 2007) | CZ creator | Article's Google rank (1=BEST) (9999=doesn't appear) | Subpage's Google rank | Category Google rank | Number of CZ revisions | approved (a) or draft (d) | # CZ contributors (people) (est) | Notes |
| Terrorism | 200712 | D. Matt Innis | 1 | 9999 | 9999 | 8 | a | 3 | |
| Lucille Ball | 200812 | Paul Wormer | 4 | 3 | 4 | d | 3 | ||
| Script kiddie | 201002 | Thomas Wright Sulcer | 9999 | 9999 | 9999 | d | |||
| Dana Delany | 201002 | Thomas Wright Sulcer | 9999 | 1 | 2 | d | |||
| Lady Gaga | 201002 | Thomas Wright Sulcer | 9999 | 9999 | 13 | d | 4 | ||
| Bromance | 201003 | Thomas Wright Sulcer | 9999 | 9999 | 6 | d | 1 | ||
| Albert Einstein | 200611 | Nancy Sculerati MD | 1 | 9999 | 42 | d | 17 | ||
| Restructuring of the United States Army | 200807 | Howard C. Berkowitz | 1 | 54 | d | 5 | |||
| Solid harmonics | 200708 | Paul Wormer | 1 | 21 | 22 | d | 3 | ||
| Plane (geometry) | 200703 | John Roby Clayton | 1 | 16 | d | 9 | |||
| Gaussian elimination | 200905 | David E. Volk | 9999 | 1 | 8 | d | 2 | Note: this is what appeared first on google: "CZ:Core Articles > Mathematics" not the CZ article; this came third: "Talk:Gaussian elimination" | |
| Linear algebra | 200811 | Barry R. Smith | 1 | 9999 | 2 | d | 1 | ||
| Cloud computing | 200807 | Ashwath Ravichandran | 4 | 5 | 9999 | 117 | d | 6 | CZ really first; three ads for CC came up first |
| Horticulture | 200612 | Nancy Sculerati MD | 1 | 9999 | 13 | d | 7 | "CZ: workgroup requests" ranks 2nd | |
| Business | 200707 | Ian Johnson | 3 | 9999 | 18 | d | 3 | "CZ:Business Workgroup" was 2nd; the business article was 3rd - | |
| Money | 200706 | Anthony Argyriou | 3 | 9999 | 12 | d | 5 | "Money supply" on CZ came up first, "Monetarism" came up 2nd | |
| Truth | 200805 | Larry Sanger | 1 | 9999 | 11 | d | 5 | Jacques Derrida, and Aesthetics came up #2 and #3 | |
| Anthropology | 200707 | Chris Day | 1 | 9999 | 41 | d | 10 | CZ:anthropology workgroup came up #9 | |
| Applied social sciences | Roger Lohmann | 1 | 2 | 9999 | 15 | d | 6 | ||
| Henry Ford | 200704 | Richard Jensen | 1 | 41 | d | 10 | HF's external links, and bibliography were #2 and #3 | ||
| Nobel Prize | 200810 | Daniel Mietchen | 1 | 9999 | 9 | d | 4 | ||
| Norway | 200705 | Kjetil Ree | 2 | 56 | d | 4 | The Norway "Gallery" came up 1st; a collection of images about Norway. | ||
| Great Britain | 200704 | Richard Jensen | 1 | 9999 | 39 | d | 6 | ||
| United Kingdom | 200611 | Rilson Versuri | 2 | 9999 | 163 | d | 22 | What came first? "Parliament of the United Kingdom - encyclopedia article - Citizendium" Why? "Catalogs" came 3rd. | |
| Scottish Parliament | 200801 | Gareth Leng | 1 | 4 | 12 | d | 4 | ||
| Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse | 200805 | Gareth Leng | 6 | 4 | 12 | 7 | d | 2 | First: Royal Mile article on CZ; second: Edinburgh (external links); third: Scottish Parliament; 4th = RP of H (related articles) |
| Arthur's Seat | 200801 | Gareth Leng | 1 | 6 | d | 4 | Scottish Parliament article #2; Royal Mile article #3; Arthur's Seat external links comes #7 | ||
| Photosynthesis | 200808 | Anthony.Sebastian | 1 | 108 | d | 6 | Photosynthesis "Gallery" comes #2 | ||
| Handyman | 201002 | Thomas Wright Sulcer | 9999 | 24 | d | 2 | CZ's Cottage industry comes 1st; Tool related articles comes #5 | ||
| Guitar | 200810 | Kiryl Rusetski | 1 | 9999 | 9999 | 10 | d | 7 | |
| Hierarchical clustering | 200911 | Daniel Mietchen | 3 | 7 | d | 2 | CZ article "Bioinformatics - encyclopedia article - Citizendium" comes 1st; the talk page of Hc comes about 8th. | ||
Notes
NOte: after the first 5 or 10 pages of a google search, I stopped looking, and would put down "rank" as 9999, meaning "I didn't find it"
Note: CZ contributors INCLUDES bots (since a Google crawler probably can't tell the difference between a person and a bot)