Top Google ranking factors

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Ranking in google - webmasters vote

I know there is plenty of lists on google ranking factors, some of the most famous are from vaughs 1 pagers and compar's list on digital point forums and recently from seomoz

With this lense I wanted to start something where webmasters could vote on their favorite factors and get a collective result out of this. 

Please vote on both the POSITIVE and NEGATIVE factors you feel strongly about and add factors that are not on the lists.

Top POSITIVE Google Ranking factors 

Keywords in title

Keywords inside title tag of page11 points

Keywords in domain name

7 points

Anchor text of inbound links

Keywords in text of the links to the site from oth more...5 points

Keywords in heading tags

Keywords in <h1> <h2> more...5 points

Keywords in URL

4 points

Anchor text from within the site

Keywords in text of links from within the site its more...3 points

Internal links

A good internal linking structure is very importan more...3 points

Keywords in Alt attribute of images

2 points

Relevance of external links

Topic of backlinks is same/similar to the site's t more...2 points

Keywords in body

1 point

Keywords in bold tag

Keywords in <b> tag1 point

PageRank of site

1 point

Outgoing link text

The text on the sites outbound links1 point

Contextual links

The use of contextual links, that are within the b more...1 point

Click through rate and Bounce rate

Google does measure the clickthrough rates and bou more...1 point

Keywords in Meta Keywords

0 points

Keywords in Meta description

0 points

Visitors to site

Frequency and amount of people on site as measured more...0 points

Top NEGATIVE Google Ranking factors 

Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots

6 points

Excessive use of javascript

5 points

Flash only page

4 points

External links from spam sites

3 points

Duplicate content

2 points

Backlinks from link farms

2 points

Invisible text

2 points

Outlinks to bad/spam sites

1 point

Use of frames

1 point

Affiliate site

0 points

Keyword stuffing

Too many keywords in pages0 points

Resources 

SeoDigger: Free Keyword Research tool
GeoLand is blog on web design, development, promotion and marketing

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seo_marketing wrote...

Don't forget to change the default name of your modules.

Great lists!

ReplyPosted August 15, 2008

Lensmaster

Ashish Thakkar wrote

How about age of domain. You forgot to mention that in your list.

Good page though :)

Regards/ASHISH T.
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Reply Posted April 11, 2008

amanda-outsource wrote...

Useful lens. 5 stars for you!

ReplyPosted February 26, 2008

MikeTheCountryMusicologist wrote...

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ReplyPosted February 11, 2008

Lensmaster

Amit wrote

Pagerank (PR) can't be a factor in google rankings (SERPs)

Reply Posted January 06, 2008

SteveMNash wrote...

Hey, your lens is great! So great I added it to my own lensroll on my brand new How to promote your site lens. Come on sign my guestbook now, eh! ;-)

ReplyPosted July 26, 2007

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Giorgos Kontopoulos is a web developer and promoter. Occasionally blogs about how to make money online and plays free online games.
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