Sentences with phrase «low quality rankings»

[60], [61], [62] Muller addressed Watts's concerns, mentioning how «Many US stations have low quality rankings according to a study led by Anthony Watts.

Many US stations have low quality rankings according to a study led by Anthony Watts.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

Not exact matches

It also had the lowest rank in food quality of all rated hamburger chains in the Nation's Restaurant News 2014 Consumer Picks survey.

Boise's house - flipping market potential is a bit lower than that of other cities in the top 10, ranking 80th, but Boise's strengths lie in its low renovation costs and high quality of life.

The NPD Group tracks customers» perception of food quality, and «McDonald's traditionally has always ranked lowest,» says Robert Carter, NPD's executive director of food service in Canada.

Old, poor - quality content does hurt your search ranking, as long as that low - quality content remains on your site and is accessible to the search engine.

Facebook is faced with similar issues, as entrepreneurial types figure out ways to ensure their low - quality videos always rank highly in the news feed.

What the top ranked cities had in common was being situated in relatively wealthy countries with good health and education systems, good quality infrastructure and they tended to be medium - sized, and had low population densities.

The technology giant will change its search rankings to «help surface more authoritative pages and demote low - quality content,» a company executive said in a blog post.

Wonder which state has the lowest crime rate, ranks high in environmental quality, parks and recreation and access to health care?

In the year 2010, Google sent a G - 800, codename Panda, to hunt and kill the rankings of websites producing low - quality content.

We have saw that, some low quality content sites make huge number of backlinks and then they may rank for short period of time.

I'd suspect if all the backlinks to a site come from blog comments and forum comments that you wouldn't rank well because those are all low quality links.

Soon after the Penguin algorithm was introduced, webmasters and brands who had used manipulative link building techniques or filled their backlink profiles with copious amounts of low - quality links began to see decreases in their organic traffic and rankings.

As I surf the web, found so many low quality businesses but ranking at the top of the search results.

This ETF is poised to remain near the top of the rankings based on its superior holdings quality and low total annual costs (TAC).

Sites can be penalized by Google for low quality or duplicate content, but there are really a number of things that could get a site knocked down a peg in rankings.

Low - quality content and pages were further penalized, while those who worked extremely hard at producing rich and interesting content saw a boost in organic traffic when looking at the rank tracker.

Google has addressed this via Google Penguin, an update to its ranking algorithm which discounts what it considers to be spammy or low - quality links.

If your rankings are lacking, your best bet is to integrate more long - tail and conversational keywords while revising any of your previous, low - quality content.

Many sites with too much advertising, or low - quality content, saw a massive decline in the rankings when Panda began.

Google in 2012 announced that it would crack down on low quality exact match domains (EMD) for websites that want to rank primarily on the merits of their domains.

With recent developments in ranking algorithms such as Google Panda, however, quality has gained a competitive edge, as search engines are starting to value content high in quality and ding websites with low quality content.

In September, Google released the 27th version of its Panda Update that will make the search filter more precise to better identify low quality content and therefore allow more small and medium - sized sites that generate high quality content to rank better.

In years past, America has ranked as the fourth best country in the world, but as a result of scoring low in «business friendliness, respect for human rights and democracy, and educational quality,» the United States has dropped down to No. 7 this year.

Several publications and websites ranked the program among the worst in the country based on surveys, and rumors of low - quality meat and other substandard practices were rampant among students.

If we account for the Bama Bump and drop each conference's highest and lowest teams from the S&P + rankings, the ACC's overall quality this year is even clearer:

Likewise, if a lower - ranked team goes to a title - chaser and parks the bus, but you expect the hosts» extra quality to tell in the end, the draw / home win bet will offer better odds than the straight home win.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

With the exception of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the lowest ranked Italian school, coming in 44th and 24th place in BoF's BA and MA rankings respectively, the careers departments of the Italian schools scored above average, with students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers services.

South Dakota receives its lowest grade in teacher quality, ranking near the bottom in the nation.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.»

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

Delaware also does not hold its teacher education programs accountable for the quality of preparation that their students receive, nor does it identify low - performing teacher - preparation programs or publish passing rates or rankings by institution.

Using the same data on Tennessee's high schools, I created lists of «low - performing schools» based on how the schools ranked on different measures of school quality.

In a national report that measures access, quality and investment in public preschool programs, California ranks high for the number of 3 - year - olds and 4 - year - olds enrolled in programs, but low on quality standards.

For example, Education Week downgraded Utah's ranking on their Quality Counts report because of the low per pupil spending and high class sizes.

The Center for Education Reports also ranks Arizona teacher quality low, noting only 43 % of teachers meet the highly qualified mark.

While the Northeast Charter Schools Network is disappointed in the state's consistently low rankings, it looks forward to working with the state's stakeholders and lawmakers to ensure the state's law promotes a quality movement and responds to parent demand.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

Beginning this year authorizers will be ranked based on three components: the academic performance of the students in charter schools they authorize; adherence to «quality practices» aligned to NACSA standards; and compliance with applicable laws regarding charter school authorizing.36 Low - performing authorizers can be prohibited from authorizing new schools, or have their authorizing authority revoked entirely.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

I've often wondered how Kia has managed to increase its sales when its quality rankings are low and its reputation isn't very good.

Skoda's strong result was helped by excellent owner ratings for low running costs, safety and practicality, along with a fourth - place ranking for reliability and build quality.

Consumer Reports says the Legacy line has «Very Good» reliability, but J.D. Power ranks Subaru much lower in quality.

With proven Toyota quality and Hybrid Synergy Drive ® reliability already exemplified through the Prius» top «Lowest Problems» ranking in JD Power's 2007 and 2008 German, French and UK surveys, the Auris HSD will bring an unprecedented level of customer satisfaction to the C - segment.

I have heard those theories too, and as for ranking internally to Amazon and basically trying to sell low - quality stuff by volume.