5 Most Effective Google SEO Ranking Factors for 2015

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Google brought big changes to its search algorithm for which search engines ranking factors are also changed. Most of the old SEO tricks do not work now, rather than those old tricks badly affect site's ranking. Almost 80% website/blog owner suffer from low traffic problem. I tried to find out the 5 most effective Google SEO factors of 2015 and listed here for helping them as well as you. Those SEO ranking factors are:

High Quality content: Content is still king. But no copy-paste content and no content to feed search bot. Content must be of high quality to serve the need of the visitors. Content of 1000+ words works best.

Optimized for mobile: Number of mobile internet users is more than PC internet users. Therefore you must think for them before lunching your new website or blog. It is the most important Google ranking factor from this year.

Loading speed: Do you want to waste you valuable time by watching "loading............loading..........loading ............" sign in your browser. Definitely not, so you have no right to waste your visitor's time as well. Slow sites are constantly losing their ranking position. Therefore get a better server to host your site for better loading speed. Server response time must be within 1 second for better SEO ranking.

Social signals: Some people says social signals are not SEO factor. Let me explain, Google wants to rank contents that are helpful for visitors. Web visitors are more likely to share contents/links via social networks that they found interesting or got help from that. It means social shares/signals are sign of better user experience. User experience is the core factor that Google gives much value. Therefore social signals are also great ranking factors from my point of view.

Brand mention: This is something very tough to get but known as the best link building method in the planet. Brand mention is called the pure natural link building method. Interesting fact is you have no control over this method. The only way to get highly valued backlinks via Brand mention is to create outstanding contents/videos/infographics etc. that you can.

Hope this post helped you. If you know about more effective SEO ranking factors then please write those factors via reply for me as well as for others.

Thanks -
MSI Sakib
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  • Profile picture of the author halk
    For me top 1 SEO ranking factors still backlinks.
    You can see several sites ranked with 0 content with only quality backlinks...
    Content is king... yes is king, but not is all...
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    • Profile picture of the author sakib777
      Hey Halk,
      Thanks for your opinion. Yah! obviously high quality backlinks are the key to bring a site on the front page of Google. But if your site cannot provide high quality contents and best user experience it will slowly lose its ranking position.
      So, the sum up is, high quality backlinks will bring to a great ranking position and high quality contents will help to hold up that ranking position.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    I really hope that everyone pays attention to this list and uses it.

    It will make it really easy for me to continue to outrank them.
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    • Profile picture of the author SEOWizard417
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      I really hope that everyone pays attention to this list and uses it.

      It will make it really easy for me to continue to outrank them.
      People love buying into the hype. While the factors that the OP listed do provide value, backlinks and onpage SEO are still the top factors when determining rank. Obviously, good content and user experience contribute to better usage metrics, conversions and should not be ignored.
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      • Profile picture of the author sakib777
        Originally Posted by SEOWizard417 View Post

        People love buying into the hype. While the factors that the OP listed do provide value, backlinks and onpage SEO are still the top factors when determining rank. Obviously, good content and user experience contribute to better usage metrics, conversions and should not be ignored.
        Backlinks are really helpful but because of changes in algorithm it varies. However, user experience is the constant ranking factor. So, everyone should go for high user experience for long term effect.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by sakib777 View Post

          Backlinks are really helpful but because of changes in algorithm it varies. However, user experience is the constant ranking factor. So, everyone should go for high user experience for long term effect.
          Backlinks do not change. They are still the #1 most important ranking factor.

          User experience matters much more for conversions than it does for SEO.

          This is a great example of why many internet marketers fail. They waste all their time tweaking their sites so they are just perfect. Meanwhile they do nothing that actually brings them any significant amount of traffic.

          Build whatever you want. If nobody sees it, it really doesn't matter.

          I appreciate that you are trying to provide something useful to the forum, but this is the kind of rehashed advice that for most people just leads to failure.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dokemion
          Originally Posted by sakib777 View Post

          Backlinks are really helpful but because of changes in algorithm it varies. However, user experience is the constant ranking factor. So, everyone should go for high user experience for long term effect.
          If only you know the loopholes in their new algorithm I bet you'll skip the 5 effective ranking factors you mentioned and head straight to linkbuilding..

          Anyway, I appreciate your information about the 5 ranking factors it will be helpful for others who are new to Google Algorithms. Keep it up..
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      I really hope that everyone pays attention to this list and uses it.

      It will make it really easy for me to continue to outrank them.
      Here's a test for newbies looking for the real deal. Find the people here who
      agree, thumbs up, promote this BS. Then ignore anything else they say or sell.

      But * sigh * the shtuff just gets piled higher.

      No reason to actually comment on the list. I can't even repeat some of the stuff
      and type at the same time. I'm shaking my head or laughing.

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  • Profile picture of the author TeKn1qu3z
    I would agree with top 3 and the social signals not sure, because I've had some 90k plus ones , but nothing brought for me.

    Creating videos, infographics that takes time, but still we need to pay money on High PR blogs or sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author crocodino
    The first and second are the best but social signals also help you to increase the traffic for your website. Backlinks is one of the best ranking factor which will increase the traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    This is a very useful list to keep in mind when building a website. Plus backlinks of course. I also agree with the post right above mine, backlinks are probably the most effective way to get traffic to your website!
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  • Profile picture of the author reddy183
    Hey Sakib,

    Back links also one of main ranking factor in top search engines. Other factors are fine which mentioned in your posting.

    Regards,
    Reddy Sekhar,
    SEO Analyst.
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  • Profile picture of the author rmacklyn
    Hey Warriors,

    I would like to focus your attention here with. One thing that I would like to talk here is about high quality backlinks. I believe that quality depends directly or indirectly on the page rank. But now a days page rank essence is being removed by Google. So what factors exactly one should consider when it comes to quality of a page?
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOpros2013
    i don't think so back-links now a days works
    i have good quality back-links but still on page rank 2
    and my competitors with no back links or minimal back-links are on page rank 1 on Google
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  • Profile picture of the author mrhmamun
    i love quality content that benefited me to getting first page on Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    It's all about onpage optimisation and offpage links.. get them both right and you will outrank the guys just using offpage links
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaThomas
    Those 5 ranking factors can be grouped into two: Onpage optimization and offpage optimization. One cannot work without the other. At the end of the day, even if you do a lot of optimization for top rankings and traffic, but get minimal to no conversion at all, then you better take a second look at how to work those factors to your benefit.
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  • Profile picture of the author ropemediahouse
    Thanks a lot for your great opinion...Quality Content & backlinks will hold your position on the first page of Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author vanished
    Social signals are still not the ranking factor! Matt Cutts has said it publicly. Also word count is not the case.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Not impressed with this list. The first is obvious, the next two are easy-to-fix and fairly minor technical things, fourth is just wishful thinking, and the last is a fancy way to describe a backlink you earned.

    Also, have you got any data to back up your claim? What makes these "the most effective"?
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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