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Active Search Results Announces its New
Search Engine Ranking Algorithm
Press Release - June 21, 2010
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The Active Search Results Search Engine
announced on June 21, 2010 its new search engine ranking
algorithm called Active Search Results Page Ranking Technology (ASR Ranking).
ASR Ranking allows search engines to rank search results higher for
websites where the owners or promoters of those websites have a history of
performing actions or events defined as Activity.
The goal of ASR Ranking is to rank websites higher in organic search results
where there are real active people supporting those websites that are displayed
in the search engine results page (SERP).
An analogy would be similar to walking into a store where there are no
employees to provide customer service such as answering questions or taking
product returns. This is a store with low activity. On the other hand, a store
with multiple people providing prompt customer service is a store with high
activity.
It is easy to identify this type of activity when you physically walk into a
brick-and-mortar store but is very difficult to recognize when you visit an
online store (website). ASR Ranking offers the tool to separate the two by
ranking a website higher in the search results when that website has higher
activity, therefore, a higher ASR Ranking.
Mark McLellan, Founder and CTO of Active Search Results and ASR Ranking, points
out that relevancy is still important. McLellan says, "Relevancy will continue
to be the top ranking factor at ASR. We will not sacrifice relevancy in place
of ASR Ranking and promoter activity." He continues to describe how ASR
Ranking will rank the more active websites higher in the search results when
relevancy is equal between the websites.
There are many benefits to the Web searcher (end user), website promoter and to
the search engines that use ASR Ranking.
End users benefit by having their search results include websites with more
up-to-date information about products, services and content; fewer dead links
on the visited websites; more search results from websites that are maintained
on a regular basis and better feedback from inquiries sent to the website by
the end user.
Website promoters benefit due to no direct costs to promote their website(s),
an increase in traffic to their website and a higher visibility on the search
engines.
Search engines benefit by experiencing increased website traffic from
promoters, higher number of promoters that register with the search engines,
more promoter demographics, more ad impressions and higher email open and
click through rates.
Active Search Results provides an option to turn on and off ASR Ranking. Mark
McLellan says, "There are times when one ranking algorithm is more appropriate
than another. The end user should be able to decide which ranking algorithms to
use. They should also be able to combine the different algorithms. This allows
for more flexibility when searching for different types of content."
Even though ASR Ranking is another search engine optimization (SEO) ranking
factor, ASR Ranking is primarily designed to complement the many different
search engines' ranking algorithms currently in use and to help enhance the end
users' search experience.
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