We have heard many times that there are almost 200 factors that affect the search engine ranking for your website, specially in regards to Google. So let’s compile a list of those factors. I’ve shared here the factors that i know. If you have any such list or even 1 factor then please share and add to the list. It may help us all improve our websites.
List of factors affecting website – webpage’s ranking in google search is as follows:
- pagerank
- speed
- w3c valid
- registration date
- registration history
- expiry date
- keyword density
- related words density
- language – detection
- title of the page
- first word of the title
- url of the page
- headings on the page
- internal links anchor text
- external links anchor text
- keywords used in first 500-1000 words
- keyword used in image alt text
- keywords used in bold and strong tag
- keywords used in meta description
- tags for that page
- freshness of post
- frequency of updation
- ratio of code to text
- advertising on page
- adsense on page
- backlink diversity
- site architecture
- use of xml sitemaps
- rss feeds on website
- citation / refrence in wikipedia, dmoz, yahoo directory, google local
Hope it helps. Do share if you have anything to add to this list!