Top SEO Ranking Factors

Unique Content

by slayerment UR10 1 year 15 weeks ago

High quality, original content is said to be king in the world of SEO. There are many benefits to having original content on a site from both a SEO perspective and a user perspective.

10out of 10

Anchor Text

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

Getting links with targeted and relevant anchor text is supposed to hold very high weight with the search engines.

10out of 10

Title Tags

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 16 weeks ago

Title tags are largely considered the most important on page optimization technique that can be applied to a web site.

9out of 10

Backlinks

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 15 weeks ago

Backlinks are links from other web sites that point to your web site. Backlinks are also sometimes called inbound links and incoming links.

8.1out of 10

Link Age

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

The age of a link is supposed to hold a lot of weight with the search engines (especially Google) because it is something that is very hard to manipulate and control.

7.6out of 10

Site History

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

The history of a site holds great value on search engines because it is one of the hardest factors to manipulate.

7.6out of 10

Site Trust

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 9 weeks ago

A highly trusted website is one of the most important things in SEO. A high trusted site is powerful because it shows the search engines that what its doing is of high quality and legit.

7.1out of 10

Domain Age

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 15 weeks ago

The age of the domain name is the time the domain has existed since a record was first created on ICANN. An older domain is generally supposed to show more trust and commitment to a web site.

6.4out of 10

Site Age

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

The age of a web site appears to be a more and more important ranking factor in the search engines.

6.2out of 10

PageRank

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by ExplEngineer UR6 1 year 9 weeks ago

PageRank (PR) is one of the most, if not the most, talked about topics when it comes to SEO.

6.2out of 10

Site Subject

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

The overall subject and direction of a site holds value as to how well it will rank.

6.2out of 10

Quality Links

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by lawless101 UR7 1 year 8 weeks ago

It is becoming more and more important these days to receive quality links when doing SEO.

5.7out of 10

Domain Name

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by ExplEngineer UR6 1 year 7 weeks ago

Getting keywords in a domain name can be a very useful part of SEO.

5out of 10

Keyword Proximity

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by john UR6 1 year 9 weeks ago

The proximity of keywords in certain page elements can have an overall effect on how a web site ranks for its keywords.

4.8out of 10

Directory Submission

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by slayerment UR10 1 year 15 weeks ago

Directory submission is the act of submitting a web site to a number of relevant link categories on other web sites.

4.8out of 10

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