Monday, May 31, 2010

Verifying Google Search Engine Ranking Factors

Google search engine ranking factors are among the most important items to check in any SEO work. This will ensure that the strategies formulated are effective, current and optimal for the best search engine ranking results. Every search engine optimization analysis examines the website's performance against these important ranking factors. This article series will take a closer look at these factors and find evidence for their existence, so you will know that you are on the right track when performing SEO on your website.

If deficiencies are found in a site's Google search engine ranking factors, the SEO in charge will attempt to make some changes to the website in such a way that it will now become search engine friendly and compliant with SEO ranking factors. Taken from a broader perspective, these improvements cover three important aspects:

* Content (using optimal titles, checking content quality, focusing relevance to targeted keywords, etc).
* Links (how other sites reference the website in terms of quality and quantity).
* Technical aspects (i.e. crawlability of the website).

This three part article series will attempt to find objective evidence of the most common and current search engine ranking factors. Finding such evidence validates expert opinions on which most SEO professionals currently rely. You can read the complete list of search engine ranking factors in Google. We will use the SEOMOZ search engine ranking factors list with emphasis on the top five ranking factors and statistically validate it versus actual data found in search engine results.

With this method, we can be sure that these SEO ranking factors listed by SEO experts are actually providing value to your SEO efforts. If you are ready, let's get started.

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