{"id":2272,"date":"2007-04-24T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/most-important-search-engine-ranking-factors\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T05:40:30","slug":"most-important-search-engine-ranking-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/most-important-search-engine-ranking-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Most Important Search Engine Ranking Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Improve your site’s search engine rankings<\/strong> and drive huge search engine traffic your way. But while search engine optimization is essential, it is important to know which factors actually influence search engine rankings. I read this amazing Search Engine Ranking Factors report<\/a> which compiled the wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization<\/strong>. They voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google’s ranking algorithm.<\/p>\n

While I tried to grasp the concepts underlying these SEO factors<\/strong>, understanding the whole document takes time and effort. To make it simpler, the guys at Search Engine Journal compiled a quick reference<\/a> (color chart) sorted by the absolute rating of importance and not by category\/type first as the original document.<\/p>\n

4 High importance SEO factors
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These were with full consensus<\/p>\n

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  1. Keyword Use in Title Tag<\/li>\n
  2. Global Link Popularity of Site<\/li>\n
  3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link<\/li>\n
  4. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    15 Moderate importance SEO factors<\/h2>\n

    Some factors of High importance with some consensus were<\/p>\n

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    1. Age of Site<\/li>\n
    2. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site<\/li>\n
    3. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community<\/li>\n
    4. Keyword Use in Body Text<\/li>\n
    5. Quality\/Relevance of Links to External Sites\/Pages<\/li>\n
    6. Rate of New Inbound Links to Site<\/li>\n
    7. Topical Relationship of Linking Page<\/li>\n
    8. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community<\/li>\n
    9. Relationship of Body Text Content to Keywords (Topic Analysis)<\/li>\n
    10. Keyword Use in H1 Tag<\/li>\n
    11. Age of Document<\/li>\n
    12. Amount of Indexable Text Content<\/li>\n
    13. Topical Relationship of Linking Site<\/li>\n
    14. Age of Link<\/li>\n
    15. Text Surrounding the Link<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      3. SEO Negative Factors<\/h2>\n
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      1. External Links to Low Quality\/Spam Sites<\/li>\n
      2. Overuse of Targeted Keywords (Stuffing\/Spamming)<\/li>\n
      3. Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content in the Index<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        These SEO factors are really insightful in helping improve your rankings in SERP’s. If you carefully analyze these factors and apply them to your site, you should definitely see a rise in search engine traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Improve your site’s search engine rankings and drive huge search engine traffic your way. But while search engine optimization is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-search-engine-optimization","tag-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}