Most Important SEO Factor

[stellamary]

Thanks for the important information...I want to know more and like to share that is be aware about the backlinks forever and get it properly.keep sharing.

[animal44]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Not a good example. No one gets the kind of backlinks that Adobe gets because of pdf readers. Its an exception because the sheer volume of quality links they get (that you and I and even most fortune 500 companies will never get). So its an exception not an example.


Plus there is little competition for that term. No one is trying to rank for "click here" Even the domain clickhere.com is targeting something else. Thats another idea that needs to die that keeps propogating itself. the results number doesn't mean anyone is competing for a term. Its just a count for the words in the index. I guarantee you 9 million pages are not competing for this term

Thomas dog apple - Google Search

There is plenty of competition for 'click here' - intitle:"click here" shows 5m, inurl:"click here" shows >2m... There are also other examples.

Also I competed in the weightloss niche for a long time, on the basis on good incoming links, from memory 40 million competing pages. We didn't have many incoming links, but those that we had were high quality.

Googles original algorithm was simply counting incoming links, but then they started ranking the links with all sorts of factors which distort a simple count. Obvious example is PR9 link is worth more than PR0 (far more). But still incoming links is the biggest factor where competition > 50,000 pages.

[peteraugusts]

Content is also a contender for the most important SEO factor crown without it you really don't have a great chance of attracting natural IBLs or ranking for many interesting search terms. The various elements of SEO really just play off against each other so you need a good balance to get the optimal results from your efforts. The more relevent content on your site the better and with freshness up there as a key factors you need to keep your site upto date.

[jaratvit]

Even though link building has emerged as one of the most essential factors for SEO, it is not the lone factor that holds any weight. Effectual keyword inclusion, the age and makeup of your domain, your website's internal linking structure and more are all still noteworthy in terms of how highly you rank in the results of search engines.

[elison]

The balance, all must be in balance...preponderance in one direction can do tha harm,so it needs to use all SERP tools with brain.

[adam westrop]

OMG, why is Butters the only one on this thread who seems to have his head about him?

To the others, we all understand about keywords and relevance and building up site authority... But guess what you aint going to beat the site above you which has a much more comprehensive linking profile then you to their site/page with slightly better keyword relation etc.... Assuming a site you are going up against has the title tags and keywords etc sorted, then it will always boil down to the links...

Always in competitive/worth while terms, it will always be backlinks... No question, anyone who says otherwise is either an idiot, or is using this thread to post some SEO practicies/theories which dont really matter for competitive keywords.

Back to the original question.... The answer is debatable... However if you are directly asking 'what is the most important factor in SEO' then it is for me going to be keyword research, without keyword research, how would you know if a term is worth while going for and that you can achieve rank for within a certain time frame? How else would you know, that a keyword you are going after has a decent amount of searches.

A strange question from the OP, and people have started to steer away from the original question and started to answer the question of 'what is the most important seo factor for a competitive keyword'.

[adam westrop]

Originally Posted by jaratvit

Even though link building has emerged as one of the most essential factors for SEO, it is not the lone factor that holds any weight. Effectual keyword inclusion, the age and makeup of your domain, your website's internal linking structure and more are all still noteworthy in terms of how highly you rank in the results of search engines.

Age of domain...... Wrong!!! Read some threads around here about that subject.

[seoforu]

Quality of the links is the most important factor for gaining good positions in Google.The quality of your site is also important and the uniqueness of content,regular updation of content cant be left.

[paulson]

Google's Matt cutts talks about three important factors that influence SERPs, Keywords, quality relevant back links and PR ( most argue that PR has no relevance to SERPs, but matt cutts says, it plays a role).

[snobants]

Originally Posted by adam westrop

Age of domain...... Wrong!!! Read some threads around here about that subject.

Domain Age, Domain Name, title, original content, and links with anchor word

[BOWarrior]

By the nature of an algorithm, it will never be one thing, as an algorithm is a combination of things. Here is how I breakdown the value of SEO on-page and off-page in basic terms.

A Basic SEO Google Ranking Guide - 100 Point Scale for On-Page and Off-Page

[Kurt]

In theory and in the context the OP suggests, I'd say page title, at least as far as pain vs. gain is concerned.

Then domain name, followed by links and anchor text. Then I'd say sprinkling the keyword (and related keywords) through the content.

The reality is, you probably need a mixture of the basics SEO elements I mentioned.

But the bottom line truth is, the most important CONCEPT in SEO is that SEO is really a numbers game. You want to have as many words on as many sites with as many links as you can get.

I'll take a bunch of pages, blogs, domains with basic SEO over a couple of "perferctly" optimized and linked pages any day.

The goal is SEO isn't to have a page rank well for a keyword. It's to have tons of pages ranking well and GETTING TRAFFIC from tons and tons and tons of keywords, phrases and combinations.

If you are new to SEO, start thinking in these terms and you'll be an expert in no time:

1. SEs index words. What percentage of the total words indexed by the SEs are YOUR'S?

2. SEs index pages (includes blogs, forum posts, sites, etc). What percentage of the SEs index are YOUR pages?

3. SEs index links. What percentage of all the links indexed are YOUR'S?

Now "optimize" those numbers using basic SEO and common sense, and consider the value of having pages and links "stick". If you're getting sites banned and links dropped, you're really on a treadmill, running as fast as you can but getting nowhere.

But your main goal from this point on is to get more than your "fair" market share.

[Kurt]

Actually, I'm wrong...Not so much wrong as not specific enough.

The most important part of SEO is content creation. If you don't have content, you can't do SEO or have anything to link to.

If you have tons of content, you can create pages to SEO and to use to build links to and from.

You can create blogs for links and additional SEO opportunties, articles for article marketing and linking, and for sites like Squidoo and Hubpages.

Cranking out content is the SEOers best friend and what holds many back from really benefiting from SEO.

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[debra]

Is the most important factor in SEO:

Balance

You can target all the keywords properly...even dominate those keywords but, then you are reliant on the search engines.

If I had to choose ONE SEO factor...it would be balance.

Onpage seo is pretty set in it's ways. You can even over-do it in some cases. Offpage can also bring it back in order with the serps. Get the balance between onpage and offpage wrong then you have real problems(headaches) trying to fix it.

Balance is when you co-ordinate the onpage and offpage equally between the search engines and the user in a logical and user friendly pattern.

[debra]

Originally Posted by elison

The balance, all must be in balance...preponderance in one direction can do tha harm,so it needs to use all SERP tools with brain.

New kid on the forum..got it right.

I didn't notice your post before my comment or I would have quoted you the first time.

Except...you don't need to use all the serp tools out there. Just the ones that make sense to your market.

[jijaybajay]

Backlink from high SERP relevant websites help

[jsfunstuff]

back link is main thing so create back link