Hi Brian, I've taken over responsibility for this area of the product. Getting a good estimate on the amount of bot/spider traffic is something you could work with your technical account manager on. Lithium is currently rebuilding our metrics/analytics technology stack, and seperate filtering out and counting bots is part of that effort. The product will eventually do this automatically. ... View more

These are both good moves. ... View more

Nice article. As I read it, I felt like what I would like to see is Google present the 2 different results sets you mentioned - PageRank & SocialRelevance. I think they have to get in the SocialRelevance game, as they are, if they want to continue to lead search. I would like to have the option of toggling between these 2 result sets, as you mentioned. For Monico, I use PageRank. For others, SocialRelevance. For most, both - just to compare/contrast. ... View more

Enjoyed the sentiment "deep dive". Thanks! ... View more

"If I were the master of the universe, I would probably prefer that this person use his cognitive surplus to compose symphonies, but I am not He." Don't be so modest, now 😉 ... View more