The SEO Lab I’m creating is just about ready to start testing the search engine algorithms. For our first few labs I’ll be testing the simplest concepts to produce concrete evidence about how the search engine algorithms work.

For these tests I have registered four brand new domain names for doing simultaneous tests, setup the DNS, and setup the four domains - each with different IP addresses on different physical servers. For various reasons I can’t give out the actual names of the four domains because there may be people that may try to sabotage the testing, so for posting purposes I’ll be calling the four domains alpha.com, beta.com, gamma.com, and delta.com.  If for any reason I need to add more domains for future labs I’ll just keep going up the Greek alphabet for naming the new domains epsilon.com, zeta.com, eta.com, etc…

When I was doing testing for my own purposes in the past, I actually just used one domain with subdomains to do minor tests, and this still works for testing so if you want to run your own tests to mirror the SEO Lab as we move along feel free too. All you have to do is create four subdomains on a domain you own and name them: alpha.domain.com, beta.domain.com, gamma.domain.com, and delta.domain.com. I suggest you place each subdomain on a separate IP address and server if possible.

Once the DNS propagates and I’m able to bring up the domains I’ll be making another post for our first actual SEO Lab. For the more advanced SEO people out their please bare with the first few SEO Labs as they will be very basic, but I think it’s important to start from the very beginning so that everyone can follow along with these labs once we get into the more advanced concepts.

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