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		web007 on Jan 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Demystifying SEO with experiments Good to see AB testing applied to SEO instead of just UX changes. The tl;dr version: A/B testing is: `bucket(hash(experiment, user identifier))` A/B testing for SEO is: `bucket(hash(experiment, url))`

kanzure on Jan 28, 2015 [–]

> bucket(hash(experiment, url))

Unfortunately it often seems to be per domain, and not per url. And then you have to factor in backlinks...

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