Factors that can affect SEO ranking

[temi]

Please add stuff you think can affect a new site achieving good ranking in Google.

1. Domain age (or should this be site age)
2. Domain owner (that the ownership of the domain is taken into account as part of the ranking. IE if an old domain changes hands. If the same person owns a shedload of domains that link to each other etc. not quite the same.
) OWG
3. Contents age (Bagi)
4. Title tags (Bagi)
5. IP adress . if your site is scoring low and it is on a server with other dodgy sites and known spammers, then you might get tarred with the same brush. (OWG)
6. Inbound links quality, qantity anchor text. target page (deep homepage etc. Outbound links, internal navigation structure, internal navigation anchor text, Site file structure. (OWG)
7. Density (OWG)
8. promenance (What does this mean? (OWG)
9. surrounding text. (OWG)
10. Outbound anchor text. (OWG)
11. location of links ona page (OWG)

 

[Bagi Zoltán]

3. link popularity for a certain keyword
4. content age
5. title tag

 

[temi]

Content age? did not know that was a factor

 

[Bagi Zoltán]

I belive that content age also work, thought it'is only a conclusion of mine experience. I see that the older things gain more trust and trust suppose to be a very stressed factor in my opinion.

 

[temi]

Thanks for that info Bagi, I never looked at it that way before, I always place emphasis on page.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

2. Domain owner (OWG says google trust certain domain owner more than others)

No he didn't OWG said that the ownership of the domain is taken into account as part of the ranking. IE if an old domain changes hands. If the same person owns a shedload of domains that link to each other etc. not quite the same.

IP adress . if your site is scoring low and it is on a server with other dodgy sites and known spammers, then you might get tarred with the same brush.

Inbound links quality, qantity anchor text. target page (deep homepage etc. Outbound links, internal navigation structure, internal navigation anchor text, Site file structure.

I better stop now or I will be here all night.

 

[SoftwareMS]

bloody hell, I think OWG has mentioned everything I was going to say.

You should give others a chance sometimes Old Timer...

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Loads more there. We haven't mentioned density, promenance surrounding text. Outbound anchor text. location of links ona page. LOADS more to go at

 

[temi]

Don't stop James, also shed more light on some jargons lay people like me does not know such as promenance, what is that?

 

[temi]

No he didn't OWG said that the ownership of the domain is taken into account as part of the ranking. IE if an old domain changes hands. If the same person owns a shedload of domains that link to each other etc. not quite the same.

IP adress . if your site is scoring low and it is on a server with other dodgy sites and known spammers, then you might get tarred with the same brush.

Thanks for the correction, it has been updated.

 

[mrcrowley]

Lack of text and tags on homepage as i've had pointed out to me

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Prominence explained. - assuming the target phrase is Blue widgets' it is all REALLY basic stuff but at least we will have it on record then.

Title tag = blue widgets = 100% density & 100% prominence as they are the first and only words. This is not necessarily a good thing though as too much of a good thing can onften make you ill

Title tag - Temis shop blue widgets Density is now 50% but the prominance is poor as they are the last two words in the title. For simple illustration we will take each word to be worth its value based on the number of words used. We have 4 words so the first word is worth 4 the second 3 the thrid 2 and the fourth 1 . In this example we have temi scoring 4 shop scoring 3 blue scoring 2 widgets scoring 1. Temis Shop scores 7 blue widgets scores 3. not really how we want things is it.

Title tag Temis blue widget shop - now we have blue scoring 3 and widgets scoring 2 so out phrase now scores 5 which is almost twice as good as our previous 3 also temis blue Widgets includes 3 words, 2 of which are our target phrase.

Title tag Blue widgets from Temis Shop. Now this is great it uses 'from' which will pretty much be discarded as a stop word, it reads great, it also has Blue Widgets as a lead phrase.

Blue Widgets from Temis Shop the home of the coloured widget. - nice title uses the single and plural of the word, uses a semantic word for Blue (coloured) and has associated words at the start and end of the title. reads great for both users and algorithms.

 

[temi]

Thanks for that explanation OWG.

 

[temi]

Lack of text and tags on homepage as i've had pointed out to me

Thanks for that MrCrowley, will add it to the list