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SEOmoz Search Engine Ranking Factors 
By: Steven Bradley 2007-04-04 About a year and a half ago when I was first beginning to understand what search engines looked at when deciding where to rank web pages . I came across the article Search Engine Ranking Factors on SEOmoz. In fact I think it was the article that led to my discovery of SEOmoz in general and the great resources on the site including one of the best blogs in the industry. If you havent seen it before Rand gathered some heavyweights in the seo community and asked them to rank on a scale of 1 to 5 various search engine ranking factors. Along with the rankings were comments on why each was or wasnt considered to be important. Reading the article a few times was a valuable learning experience for me and was perhaps one of the seminal moments in my seo education. Yesterday SEOmoz released an improved version 2 of the list of ranking factors. The link above takes you to version 2. This time around the number of contributors has grown from 12 to 35 while the list of factors has been reduced to 55 from the original 100, though quite a few of the 55 really encompass more than one specific factor for ranking. Also this time around the focus is on Google instead of all the major search engines. Rand explains the changes in more depth in his latest blog post. One of the nice additions in the new version is the summary information at the top. For example heres the list of the top 10 positive factors.
2. Global Link Popularity of Site 3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link 4. Link Popularity within the Sites Internal Link Structure 5. Age of Site 6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links To Site 7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community 8. Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots 9. Keyword Use in Body Text 10. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site Its interesting that after all this time and all the usual focus on links that many community leaders still give the most importance to keywords in your title tag. The summary information also includes the top 5 negative factors and one of the nice touches this time around was a bit of statistical analysis so each factor could be looked at in terms of the agreement among the contributors. The analysis led to being able to show a consensus score for each factor and a list of the top 10 most controversial factors. Danny Sullivan, one of the 35 contributors gives his own review along with some addition thoughts in Ranking The SEO Ranking Factors at Search Engine Land. If youre new to seo and have never encountered the list I highly recommend taking a look. I promise youll want to bookmark the page and come back often. If you have seen the list before youll still want to come back for the new version. Its an improvement over what was previously there and lets face it search engines have changed since August of 2005 when the article first came out. Rand will you be updating the Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization next? Comments Tag: SEO Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Steven Bradley is a web designer and search engine optimization specialist. Known to many in the webmaster/seo community by the username vangogh, he is the author of TheVanBlog, which focuses on how to build and optimize websites and market them online. |
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