For those interested in that follow - up, I will be leading a webinar for ActionSprout the first week of June (exact dates to be announced shortly) specifically to talk
about Algorithm changes.
Who's NOT freaking out
about the algorithm changes?
I quickly figured out that while I could sit around and bitch
about the algorithm change, the best thing I could do for What Nicole Wore as a brand was to keep trucking along and grow on other platforms.
Not exact matches
In most cases there are two easy ways to tell when Facebook (fb) makes a meaningful
change to the
algorithm: One is that media companies start to moan
about how their traffic from the giant social network has been declining rapidly for no apparent reason.
Then there's the risk that Facebook will
change its mind
about what it sees as important, or whose content it wants to highlight using its all - powerful
algorithm.
Whether you're giving a sneak peek into the cooking classes you offer or teaching your audience
about the newest
changes to Facebook's
algorithm, using this feature can be ideal for turning viewers into customers.
He said people would wait outside YouTube's offices to speak with employees
about changes to the homepage or
algorithm that was affecting them.
Think
about this for a moment: Google rolls out a new
algorithm, the largest single
change since 2001, and adds nothing to prevent smart and sly webmasters from taking advantage of it.
Certainly, fears
about any new
changes to the engine's
algorithms are warranted.
In fact, Facebook has been pretty public
about making
changes to their
algorithm controlling which videos will organically show more often in news feeds.
If you're a content creator or social curator, you know all
about the challenges tied to
algorithm changes, industry shifts, and the ongoing fight to sustain reach in an oversaturated market.
Once, such hype might have targeted the uninitiated, but these days, an increasing number of stock trades are driven by computers making split - second decisions
about when to buy or sell — often by using sophisticated
algorithms to monitor price
changes and the flow of news on mainstream outlets and social media.
This could be especially valuable for Page owners as Facebook is making
changes to their News Feed
algorithm to give people more opportunities to interact with the people they care
about.
So far, 2018 has been a roller coaster ride of industry shifts for publishers, kicked off by Facebook's sweeping
algorithm change that left brands wondering
about the future of traffic growth and monetization on social.
According to Facebook's product manager Max Eulenstein and user experience researcher Lauren Scissors, there are actually three things that are
about to
change about the Facebook News Feed
algorithm: read more
The quote above comes from a post on Facebook's business blog on November 14, 2014,
about yet another
change to Facebook's News Feed
algorithm.
What do you think
about the latest Facebook News Feed
algorithm change?
As Google has become more serious
about handing out penalties and making drastic
algorithm changes like the Panda update and the Penguin update that punish sites that publish poor content and use outdated and black hat SEO tactics, a number of websites have been affected.
Particularly with the recent
changes to Facebook's Newsfeed
Algorithm and their statements
about marketers needing to pay for traffic, the ad free environment of Google + is a breath of fresh air.
Last week, I read
about a Netflix
algorithm update that's
changing the way they serve program images to customers.
Nest's
algorithms have also
changed slightly as Nest has learned more
about its customers.
In a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter
about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced
algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed
algorithm.
I don't blame people for doing it, but you often hear pros complaining
about «
changes to the YouTube
algorithm» and other stuff.
When we're talking
about search engine optimization, we're not talking
about spoofing search engines with bad information or otherwise trying to distort the search engine results — people often try to do that, but the search companies constantly
change their
algorithms to counter new tactics.
Read this
algorithm change carefully before you get stressed out
about it — also Facebook reupped the crackdown on engagement baiting
And in the newsletter intro this month I talked a bit
about FB
Algorithm changes and still maintain this is nothing for advocacy / campaign social to be worrying about... again, if you are overtly being promotional enough to get dinged for this, you deserve to be, imho, but here's the official FB announcement for this particular algorithm tweak: News
Algorithm changes and still maintain this is nothing for advocacy / campaign social to be worrying
about... again, if you are overtly being promotional enough to get dinged for this, you deserve to be, imho, but here's the official FB announcement for this particular
algorithm tweak: News
algorithm tweak: News Feed FYI.
Webinars & TrainingsWebinar: Mon, June 1 & Tues, June 2, 1 pm ET / 10amPacific both days - my Webinar series hosted by ActionSprout continues with a webinar focusing on April's
Algorithm Changes (semi spoiler below in the reading section) highlighting what the data is showing and things to think
about Also, no link yet but Wed..
But
about 10 years ago they
changed approach, and instead resorted to
algorithms that reduced the impact of recording conditions, called compensation techniques.
It uses
algorithms to detect
changes to the forest in areas as small as 10 square meters,
about 100 square feet, allowing scientists to find small - scale disturbances that can not be detected by traditional satellite methods.
Of course not everything is going to be a home run, but the
algorithm change has really made me be more thoughtful
about every photo that I post.
There has been so much conversation this week with my #InstaFam
about the
changes in the Instagram
algorithm.
Here is some potentially good news if you are concerned
about your eBooks being illegally copied and distributed on the Internet: Google is
changing their search
algorithms to consider the number of valid copyright removal notices they receive when delivering search results.
A lot of Internet marketers freaked out
about the recent «Panda» update in which Google
changed it's
algorithm to try and fend off an increasing level of content spam.
Since Amazon
changed the
algorithms, my sales are down 35 % from April, which were down
about that much from March (which were almost 5X what Feb and Jan were, so can't complain too much).
I think I said in one of my blogs
about 6 months ago that it would get tougher from here on out due to the
algorithm change by Amazon.
I've been reading a lot of threads lately
about Amazon and Kindle and how Amazon is
changing the
algorithms to promote books that are more...
I'm not only talking
about the Facebook
changes to their
algorithm, as much as that sucks, it's not the only thing standing in the way of indie authors when it comes to reaching their readers.
Once you complain
about all the uncontrollable factors — how Amazon
changes their
algorithm, BookBub rejects your ad, and free giveaways will destroy the industry — it is you who can make a
change.
Everyone is still buzzing
about the recent
algorithm changes for Facebook.
Mark Dawson, the acknowledged expert on Facebook advertising for authors, took time out at the London Book Fair to talk to ALLi Director Orna Ross
about what the new Facebook
algorithm and other
changes mean for writers
Michael Bhaskar, digital publishing director of Profile Books in the UK, will talk
about the recent, profound
changes Google has made to its discovery
algorithms, from the advent of PageRank to the new Panda / Farmer process.
But with the popularity list, they play with that quite a lot and when you hear people talk
about big
algorithm changes it's usually they've done something to the popularity list.
Search engine
algorithms are always
changing (you might have heard
about Google's latest
change).
- the game's shading mechanism has
changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking
about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an
algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was
changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are
changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will
change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories
about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care
about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific
about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects
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A few people even started a
Change.org petition to get Instagram to
change their minds
about the
algorithm.
Now for climate
change work, we don't care so much
about the actual temperature, but do want to know
about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative
algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.
I have questions
about the use of
change point
algorithms that have not been answered to my satisfaction to date and I have a great deal of interest in the benchmarking of these various
algorithms by testing against realistic simulated data where the truth is known.
Although most of the time web developers and SEO «experts» are just guessing (albeit in an educated way)
about what goes into the
algorithms used by search engines to rank lawyer websites, last week, the official Google blog contained an article entitled, «Finding more high quality sites in search» that advised of some
changes in their search
algorithm.
We've heard the recent announcement that Google made a
change about their
algorithm involving mobile - ready websites.