The SEO Periodic Table: Best Ever Article on SEO Ranking Factors – a Must Read

Loads of people writing, speaking, blogging and consulting on search engine optimization or SEO. Some of them even have good advice, but often in snippets. They just don’t give the big picture on all the things that go into SEO.

Thanks to Bob Ambrogi who tweeted about the Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors. As a one-time student of chemistry, I think using a periodic table layout is a brilliant way of grouping very different but related things in a logical way. And don’t be scared off if the last time you saw a periodic table was when you ran screaming from your grade 12 chemistry lab.

The Periodic Table of Content

Content is made up of pieces. And pieces can be broken down into smaller pieces or combined into larger pieces, just like the elements on the Periodic Table. Thinking about content as particles will give you ideas on how to quickly create new content by “atomizing” your existing content into smaller pieces or combining content into larger compounds.

But before you turn your articles into particles, let’s look at what the content universe is made of. Once we know what’s on the Periodic Table of Content, we’ll be ready to start smashing particles in the content accelerator.

• Elements at the top of the chart are small and tend to have a shorter half-life.

• Elements at the bottom are larger, slower to create and last longer.

• Elements to the left appear everywhere, on billions of sites and various devices.

• Elements on the right are more likely to be on your site.

• The number in the top right indicates the typical length of number of words for that Element.

'Periodic Table for Flies' Is Guesswork, Not Science

Researchers have constructed a new evolutionary tree for flies that purports to show which types of fly likely evolved into other types. Researchers call this map the "new periodic table for flies."1 But this is misleading, since the table is subjective and historical and thus contrasts with the periodic table of elements, which was constructed based on repeatable experimentation.

A North Carolina State University press release stated:

Using the most complete set of fly genetic and structural anatomy data ever collected, the [research] paper shows that members of the oldest, still-living fly families are rare, anatomically strange flies with long legs and long wings that grow up in fast-flowing mountain waters.

Periodic Table of Typefaces

The Periodic Table of Typefaces (Popular, Influential & Notorious) is an online project by graphic designer Cam Wilde. It joins a distinguished canon that includes not only the Periodic Table of Elements we all learned in high school, but also The Periodic Table of Awesoments and the Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.But Wilde has done his homework, and his re-jiggering of the pseudo-zoological way fonts are classified humanizes a subject that can appear stodgy or irrelevant to non-professionals: Only a chemist could love Molybdenum, and only a designer could wax poetic about News Gothic.Hydrogen's spot on the original Periodic Table is occupied by the most elemental of typefaces, Helvetica; down in the radioactive netherworld of Unnilhexium and Unnilpentium are fancy-pants fonts like Zapfino and Mistral. And in the space normally occupied by old-school poisons like lead and radon, are the notorious so-called "Nazi fonts" of the Blackletter family – which were really nothing of the sort. (Blackletter was in use throughout Germany before the Nazis came to power, and was later banned by them as too "Jewish." It was also used by GM for the bad-ass lettering on special editions of the Pontiac Trans Am of in the 1970s.)

2 new elements added to periodic table

NEW YORK — They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they have gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table.

The elements were recognized by an international committee of chemists and physicists. They’re called elements 114 and 116 for now — permanent names and symbols will be chosen later.

Youare not likely to run into these particles: Scientists make them in labs by smashing atoms of other elements together to create the new ones.

“Our experiments last for many weeks, and typically, we make an atom every week or so,’’ said chemist Ken Moody of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wh is part of the discovery team.

In contrast to more familiar elements like carbon, gold, and tin, the new ones are short-lived. Atoms of 114 disintegrate within a few seconds, while 116 disappears in just a fraction of a second, Moody said.

Both elements were discovered by a collaboration of scientists from Livermore and Russia.

They made them by smashing calcium ions into atoms of plutonium or another element, curium.

The official recognition, announced last week, cites experiments done in 2004 and 2006.

In the periodic table, the number of an element refers to the number of protons in the nucleus of an individual atom. Leading the list is hydrogen (H) with one. Sodium (Na) has 11, iron (Fe) has 26, and silver (Ag) has 47.

In the past 250 years, new elements have been added to the table about once every 2 1/2 years on average, said Paul Karol of Carnegie Mellon University.

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/06/09/2_new_elements_officially_added_to_periodic_table/

Alternative Periodic Tables (Updated. Now with a Final Thought!)

There’s an article in the current issue of Nature Chemistry that discusses some alternative ways of depicting the periodicity of the elements. There’s the IUPAC recognized Mendeleevian periodic table that everyone knows. There’s probably 3 in eyesight of you right now, isn’t there?

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But how many alternative periodic tables can you think of.  Hint: there’s A LOT.  More below the jump.

For starters, some prefer to stick the lanthanides and actinides in as part of the table as a whole, instead of just a footnote.  This is the called the Janet Form.  Note how it moves the first two families and places them all the way on the right:

Periodic Table Mystery

National Science Education Standards

Grades 9–12

(HU2—Evidence and Models, HB2—Structure and Properties of Matter)

Objective

Using coded symbols for the main group elements in the first 4 periods of the periodic table, students will generate a periodic table from pertinent clues. They will use their knowledge of physical properties and periodic properties to predict the missing properties of several elements based on the elements’ locations in the table.

Introduction

The periodic table used today is a product of the 1st periodic table published by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in l869. The amazing accuracy of his predictions for as-yet unknown elements, using trends within groups and periods, has been very significant to chemists. The bases of his periodic table were the physical properties, the chemical properties, and the atomic masses of the elements rather than atomic numbers. Henry Moseley rearranged the Mendeleev Periodic Table based on atomic numbers of the elements. In accordance with this modification, the periodic law states that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic number.