5 Most Important Factors To Rank High For Keywords in Google
I’ve been able to get fairly high rankings in a short amount of time with some of my sites, by knowing what are the most important factors for ranking on a keyword. These are ordered with the first being the most important.
1) Anchor Text
2) Pagerank
3) Title
4) Age
5) Keywords in URL/domains
1)Anchor text is harder to manipulate and often tells what 3rd parties think of your website. So Google and other search engines plays a high importance. There are websites out there with no major incidence of the keywords in their title or content, yet they rank for that keyword. This is ONLY because of a large amount of links with the anchor text of those keywords.
2) Google only cares about weighting certain backlinks with pagerank, but Google sends most search engine hits so you should care. It also allows you determine which pages give you “the most bang for your buck” for link juice.
3) Most websites over time have learned to not use a brand name as their title but instead put in a generic term or frequently searched keyword phrase.
4) The longer a page and it’s backlinks have been around, the more chance the site is not a spammy or blackhat type site. Yahoo loves aged sites even more than Google.
5) Having the keywords somewhere in the URL can help your SERPs ranking. Keywords in the domain are worth the most. Order of the keywords and how they are seperated(with hyphens) helps.
June 12th, 2008
The article you have here is very true. These factors helped me increase the traffic of my website. But, anchor text is the one I usually use.
June 12th, 2008
i guess in long term anchor text but no 5 is very accurate in new niches when you don’t have that much competition
June 12th, 2008
I dont know what happened but it said i didnt past spam test???
Anyway i’ll write again.
Anchor text is very important in long term but when niche is new i”l go with no5
June 12th, 2008
You were triggered by the askimet spam filter, which I have no control over, but I unchecked your post so it can show.
June 13th, 2008
Good article…I like the way you summarized the five key factors in SEO. I also think you could add a sixth factor, which is content. IMHO, without content, the other five factors won’t add much value unless you have valuable content.
June 13th, 2008
You are right, but Perhaps QUALITY of content. Content won’t help you rank unless its unique and high quality.
June 17th, 2008
ya, all the above said 6 points are right for proper way of SEO. But, I would also like to say about sitemap submission, because google may not scroll each and every page so it is better to place the sitemap with specifying last modified date so it will be very easy for the search engine. I am not the expert of SEO but i got one information about the sitemap importance from this blog http://www.seoindia.mobi/blog/. So it might be very helpful if we update the sitemap.
June 17th, 2008
Sophia but I’m talking about how to rank the best for keywords. Sitemaps is a whole seperate issue.
June 17th, 2008
There is a lot of fuss about Pagerank. I think it is nothing else than a green bar now. I know many sites and blogs who are even not updated regularly but they have PR5, on the other hand there are many who are updated at least twice in the week but still are zero. Pagerank is game of money and links so if you have money to purchase high PR link then you are supposed to get high PR very soon.