What is the most important "ranking factor" that as a SEO experts have come across?

In my opinion, the most important ranking factors are increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to your pages, and use of good unique content.

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HaroldD 13 years ago

Good quality backlinks and get keywords in the title plus in the content.
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JoshKelsey

13 years ago

User experience is the most important thing for SEO.

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Phasm

13 years ago

Backlinks. With the right backlinks any website can rank for extremely competitive terms even with completely awful on page SEO. Pay attention to the websites that rank for the hyper-competitive keywords, sometimes they're a complete train wreck (done in flash, no on page SEO done, poor layout, slow server, etc.) but still rank well.

You want to know why? Because they have either extremely powerful backlinks or a high, high number of total inbound links.

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zita123 13 years ago

There are number of techniques that helps to rank your website higher in Search Engine.. Like blog posting, forum posting.. You need to post all the quality links..
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- venumssi 11 years ago
  
  the unique content, meta tags, backlink from articles, guest posting are high ranking factors
  
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FrankRumbauskas

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Phasm

Backlinks. With the right backlinks any website can rank for extremely competitive terms even with completely awful on page SEO. Pay attention to the websites that rank for the hyper-competitive keywords, sometimes they're a complete train wreck (done in flash, no on page SEO done, poor layout, slow server, etc.) but still rank well.

You want to know why? Because they have either extremely powerful backlinks or a high, high number of total inbound links.

THANK YOU ... if I hear one more person talk about content I'm going to puke. SEO is spelled L-I-N-K-S. The only thing that changes with algo updates is they demand a higher quality of links. If you have them to begin with then you're good to go.

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dennis09

11 years ago

Originally Posted by FrankRumbauskas

THANK YOU ... if I hear one more person talk about content I'm going to puke. SEO is spelled L-I-N-K-S. The only thing that changes with algo updates is they demand a higher quality of links. If you have them to begin with then you're good to go.

Exactly.

Also, link baiting and SAPE aren't ranking factors. :rolleyes:

If i had to narrow it down to just two, i'd still go with relevancy and PR. I can't see you needing anything other than that for killing most niches.

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affilorama-portal

11 years ago

With Panda and Penguin out, I think you need to focus on quality content and quality backlinks. Ranking these days mean you do not just focus on ranking in search engines but also you need to consider your audience/readers by making good and quality contents and building your site around quality links.

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dennis09

11 years ago

Relevancy and PR. Give me those two and I'll rank all over your "quality" 500 word essays. With a blank page at that.

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smodha 11 years ago

Originally Posted by dennis09

Relevancy and PR. Give me those two and I'll rank all over your "quality" 500 word essays. With a blank page at that.

I agree with Dennis. Relevant links and good PR will outrank anything.

Content has always been about pleasing your audience. It has nothing to do with pleasing Google.
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Slin

11 years ago

Nothing. No one knows, it's all a guessing game.

Link baiting is definitely good, sape links are killing it right now.

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Lilacor 11 years ago

Here's a person that definitely knows how to use SAPE

Originally Posted by Slin

Link baiting is definitely good, sape links are killing it right now.
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Moses.W.

11 years ago

For today, the most important "ranking factor" is the "Website Usage Metrics"

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markwilson4074

11 years ago

Content is the king.

Good content is the number one ranking factor in the eyes of search engines. Every thing comes after that, including but not limited to social signals, PR, backlinks etc.

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challanger

11 years ago

In On-Page If you have everything Unique and real. Than its "TITLE"

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prince55l

11 years ago

Good content, quality backlinks related to your niche are good ranking factor

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PeckhamPirate

11 years ago

Sticky content that not only gets shared naturally, but also keeps people on your site for longer.
Plus lots of easy, one click, ways for them to share your pages socially.

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11 years ago

On-Page SEO - Well structured website with Good Onpage SEO is most important.

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wackiin

11 years ago

Same as most of the above have stated BackLinks good on page and OK content
Read some of the latest post content is no longer King

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Carl Brown 11 years ago

Website authority is king. -- not content. A news magazine (Forbes) publishes one article on my topic and it knocks out all the competition (a high competition keyword). They have 6 backlinks listed in Google (facebook and a few others).
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Rocky Mountain Dude

11 years ago

Almost any SEO problem can be solved with back links.

To get the best backlinks you must produce Relevant content that people will want to share and link to. Become a professional in your field and prove it through your relevant content that people find helpful to solve their problems.

Learn how to use some SEO automation Tools.

The other factor maybe even more important || Is your website search engine crawl-ability, googlebot friendly?

do a thorough homepage check - disable javescript
title tage
category/subcategory pages
analyze links
robots

That is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list, or comprehensive guide on any specific method; but it is an example of the knowledge you, or your outsourcer, require to do effective SEO for your website.

Here's Food for Thought || Competitive Research

What if the most important ranking factor was how well your competition is ranking and how much effort it will require to gain top SERP results by outranking your competition!

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bsummers

11 years ago

I think the most important is the content. It's one main factor why visitors get interested with you and your company. They want to know your services and how you do things. Good content established credibility and shows your expertise as well.

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nik0

Banned 11 years ago

High related content on the website and high PR backlinks is the winning formula. The more relevancy on the website the less links you need to rank.

For example if you have a lawnmower review site with only 5 pages or 50 pages then the 50 page site will rank much easier. That's why I always build sites around one single product group. Just more cost efficient as well as a site with tons of bottom page one or page two rankings isn't bringing in much traffic.

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Brian Lett 11 years ago

Solid on-page SEO and regular relevant sought after content.

Patient and consistent off-page link building to all site pages varied anchor text.

Consistent social signals (especially Twitter and Facebook).

Sorry, I couldn't narrow it down to just one
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