SEOmoz – Ranking Factors Version 2 Released
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Yesterday SEOmoz released their new version of Ranking Factors.
If you are interested in getting more search traffic to your site or search engine optimization as a topic this post by Rand Fishkin is a must read.
In August, 2005, SEOmoz launched the first series of ranking factors. We asked a dozen folks in the SEO world to vote on the importance of over 100 unique factors surmised to be part of the search engines’ ranking algorithms. Today, we’ve released a new version that addresses many of the issues that frustrated users of the first version and updates the series to modern times.
Here are 2 lists for you to compare the Ranking factors from both series.
Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2005:
- Title Tag (4.57)
- Anchor Text of Links (4.46)
- Keyword Use in Document Text (4.38)
- Accessibility of Document (4.3)
- Links to Document from Site-Internal Pages (4.15)
- Primary Subject Matter of Site – (4.00)
- External Links to Linking Pages (3.92)
- Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.77)
- Global Link Popularity of Site (3.69)
- Keyword Spamming (3.69)
Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2007:
- Keyword Use in Title Tag (4.9)
- Global Link Popularity of Site (4.5)
- Anchor Text of Inbound Link (4.4)
- Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure (4.1)
- Age of Site (4)
- Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site (3.9)
- Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.9)
- Keyword Use in Body Text (3.9)
- Global Link Popularity of Linking Site (3.7)
- Topical Relationship of Linking Page (3.6)
The list of contributors reads like a list of Who’s Who in the SEO world.
Here are some questions to think about.
- Just what are the developing trends for search engine optimization considerations?
- What do these shifts in priorities mean to you, the site owner or SEO service?
- How will this report effect your SEO strategy?
late,
gary
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