Comments on: What’s That Smell? Is it My LinkRank? http://cogdogblog.com/2005/09/30/my-linkrank/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:23:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob Wyman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/09/30/my-linkrank/#comment-1926 Bob Wyman Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:41:08 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1125#comment-1926 D'Arcy: Daily LinkRanks are intentionally volatile since that volatility is required to accurately reflect the daily changes in popularity, importance, etc. of sites. This is why we also compute 15/30 (and soon 60) day average LinkRanks. When you average the volatile daily numbers over a period of time, you get a much less volatile number. However, it is important to realize that the daily numbers and the "period based" numbers are telling you different things. bob wyman D’Arcy: Daily LinkRanks are intentionally volatile since that volatility is required to accurately reflect the daily changes in popularity, importance, etc. of sites. This is why we also compute 15/30 (and soon 60) day average LinkRanks. When you average the volatile daily numbers over a period of time, you get a much less volatile number. However, it is important to realize that the daily numbers and the “period based” numbers are telling you different things.

bob wyman

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/09/30/my-linkrank/#comment-1925 D'Arcy Norman Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:44:16 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1125#comment-1925 PubSub linkrank seems a bit volatile, and I'm not sure how accurate it is... Check out the oscillations on my nook of the 'net http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darcynorman.net Almost as volatile as BlogShares :-) PubSub linkrank seems a bit volatile, and I’m not sure how accurate it is…

Check out the oscillations on my nook of the ‘net
http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darcynorman.net

Almost as volatile as BlogShares :-)

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