2014 Ranking Factors

Well I agree with above post, because same situation is here where my website is way better in terms of SEO and everything is done so far is according to the Google and experts guidelines. But my website is at #12 and the website with no reputation is sticking at #1.... So confused why and how this is possible... Any one out there who can solve this mystery?

Here is a part of the ansewer in your post:
"Backlinks:
site #1: very few but more natural links, prob. all natural and a few local citations/directory types. "
Quality links count much more these days than hundreds of crappy ones. Also links are just small part of the big picture. Which site has better content? Which site has better internal structure? There are many qustions that need and answer. Please share the websites so i can be more specific.

You should be asking for 2015 Ranking Factors since 2014 is nearing its end.

I've noticed this in a niche Im targeting as well. There's a crappy obvious affiliate site ranking much higher than me, but all my metrics are far superior including content and depth. Very frustrating!

I think social signal more important again nowadays

It used to be a case that a few ranking factors (backlinks, anchor text, basic onpage SEO.....) could help a site dominate a SERP, but those days are long gone. You are looking at a small percentage of factors why a page is ranking and two of the factors: domain age and social media per se don't appear to be DIRECT ranking factors.

If page speed and backlinks were the be all and end all of ranking in 2014 it sounds like you'd be right about the SERP (not seen the SERP), but that's not how Google works today.

Google is using over 200 ranking factors, they won't be shared equally, if we looked at each ranking factor as a percentage towards a pages rank we can guess backlinks will contribute more of a % to a SERP than say are all images optimized for size or is the page minified for speed (two page speed factors).

You are concentrating on a small number of ranking factors, page speed (which is likely to be multiple factors, not one) and backlinks (again, not one factor) and forgetting the other factors which could alone account for the rankings: only Google knows for sure what the 200+ ranking factors are and how much each is worth.

Currently page speed though important (all ranking factors are important for obvious reasons), doesn't appear to be a major ranking factor: I think Google is moving that way though, but even then I don't see fast sites ranking just because they are fast.

Backlinks have always been a major ranking factor, but as Google has added more factors and changed relative values, it seems backlinks do not hold the same ranking value as they once did (still a major factor, but not as high % wise as before).

You are in affect looking at two cars tires and steering wheels and saying their steering wheels look similar, but car A's tires are much better quality than car B's tires, so why doesn't car A go faster than car B? All you can say about the two cars is, if all other factors are equal you'd expect car A to go faster, but if other factors aren't equal who knows which will be faster without looking at the other factors.

David

create real relationships with similar websites owners exchange links, create web 2.0 properties well structured with some good backlinks pointing to them as well

Build steady backlinks picking quality over quantity

Hello There ,
I think Social media , Youtube marketing , Yahoo Q/na , Guest post , PBN , high PR web 2.0 post are most valuable link building factors .

as for I know... Local Citations as many, Social Bookmarking, Image Geo tagging. KML sitemap, Some reviews, Youtube Geo-tagging and some PBN all works fine..

Seo changes on a continuous basis nowadays but social media plays a big part now and with Google buying YT a lot of marketers are now finding videos rank Very well with Google !

How about the content and the domain old between #1 and #7? The content should be considered as the first priority

And the problem is about capturing emails if you are not building a niche based website....

Authority websites consists of several niches, if you put the code from FeedBurner, the same code will appear all the posts...

And I'm not sure, if FeedBurner allows linking a domain like yourdomain.com/your-niche/

Is there any solution to this? If I want to capture emails instead of having an authority site, the subscribers should be based on niches within my authority site, so that I make a post, the niche-based subscribers will be notified?

does the website #7 have consistent amount of traffic? backlinking and others SEO treatment would be worthless if the website doesn't get enough traffic.

In my experience, it's all about traffic value, then you can go for SEO treatment.. Most website owner immediately start building links and stuff, which I think false. I would focus on valuable traffic first and then start building links.

It is always work..

The hiding backlinks makes all those tools like ahrefs etc. a lot less usable these days ...
Just don`t try to figure out why exactly they ranked better, they hiding probably most of their (not so natural as it should be) backlinks profile to not burning them by the competitors. It`s our 2014/2015 reality now so PBN`s rocks, that`s the answer.

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