User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox11

Why do CZ articles sometimes fail to appear in Google searches? I looked at various CZ articles, created at different times by different people, looked at different variables such as # revisions, # contributors, creation date (sortable format, so later dates are numerically higher). For each, I typed this into a google searchbar, putting the exact article name in quotes:

"Exact article name" citizendium

What rank did each one get? The rank is the entry number; so if it appeared on the first page in the fourth slot, it got a rank of "4"; I counted subgroups too. If it didn't appear after a page or two of searching, I put 9999 meaning I didn't find it.

My working hypothesis is: CZ's Related Article subpages CONFUSE Google's crawlers. They have trouble figuring what links to what. As a result, CZ's internal links are TOO COMPLEX and CZ's web presence is harmed as a result.