links to the site, with such factors as pagerank, anchor text, trustrank, age of the page, age of the site... You get the idea
Yup I agree. Keep your eye on where you put your backlink since its really important factor for Google
definitely NOT hits as it is biased towards mature sites, while genuinely QUALITY new sites will never rise in SERPs, which would create a vicious cycle.
Does Google give some importance to links from forums and blogs? If we are placing a link on a site, how long does it take for google to consider this link?
I would say the organizing of online materials. It seems that they are currently focusing on mainly links and content relevancy for SERP.
10 days, 9 days, 8 days or a month just joking No one knows, all it depends is how quality is the forum you are linking from and other factors.
links and targeted links are the main priority! actually hits is something that google dosenot mind much! if you have some premium sites, which has millions of uniques a day! then hits can become a priority, else it is always links,
Links to the site is what Google is looking at. Hits of the site, I am not sure if it matters to Google.
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