Most Important Factor In Achieving A Top 10 Search Engine Ranking?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ericb, Oct 23, 2008.

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    One of the most exciting aspects of search engine optimization is that no two people conduct SEO in the same manner. Likewise, there is no set way to achieve and maintain top 10 search engine rankings.

    Therefore, this question is for anyone who has ever achieved a top 10 search engine ranking.

    What do you think is the most important factor in achieving a top 10 ranking?

    For me, I feel that the “title tag” when used effectively has the most dramatic impact on search engine rankings. Thus, I would say that the title tag is the most important individual factor.

    However, I know that there are a variety of factors that contribute to great rankings and the ultimate ranking success for a website is decided on the utilization of these factors in combination; but I would like your thoughts on the one specific factor you consider most important?

    Thanks
     
    ericb, Oct 23, 2008 IP
  2. shand0

    shand0 Well-Known Member

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    Links with anchor text of the search term
     
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    The most important factor for me is the LINK!
    It must be a quality link, and a quality link is

    1) On topic (The page linking to your page is about the same main topic)
    2) Ranked well for the keyphrase you are after (In the top 1,000)
    3) Contains the keywords you wish to rank well for
    4) Has high PR (PR 4 or higher)
     
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    For me Links, Content and Meta tags all three are important.
     
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    hi

    i totally agree with cnvseo
     
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    As per my openion, keywords place most important role in search engine optimization. include keywords in url, title, description and use keywords in content.
     
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    1) Title Tags.
    2) Your Domain name should contain main Keyword.
    3) Meta Description
    4) Keyword Density
    5) Your content should have keyword and that should match Title keywords.
     
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    Fresh updates with contents .. back links creations.. :)
    Regular web analysis.. and after all white hat tricks..
     
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    dream_sonu Well-Known Member

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    yaaa meta tags & content
     
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    content I think .
     
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    How about relevance. If search engine spiders are as smart as they claim to be and employ LSI, they would pick up contextual relevance. So even if you fail to mention the exact keywords in your title, metas and content, you should still be ranking for your primary keywords and better the long tail keywords.
     
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    Fresh contents with targeted topic, link from authoritative site, keyword density.
     
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    The most important factors for achieving a top 10 Search Engine Ranking are

    1.Title
    2.Description
    3.Keywords
    4.Good Content

    In all these fields we have to use proper Keyword stuff.

    In title we have to use 0 to 75 characters when considering all Search Engines.
    In Description, we have to use 0 to 250 characters
    In Keywords,0 to 250 characters are preferable.
     
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    The most important SEO factor for achieving a top 10 ranking cannot be determined (and therefore ericb's question cannot be answered) without first knowing the market and keywords for which the website is competing. The following 2 scenarios might help illustrate this.

    Scenario 1. If the keywords are not very competitive, then a number 1 ranking can often be achieved without a single backlink, provided the right on page optimisation has been carried out. In this scenario, on page optimisation is the most important factor for achieving a high ranking (and this can be achieved in a very short timescale).

    Scenario 2. If the keywords are highly competitive, then it is harder and will take longer to achieve a high ranking. In this scenario, backlinks are by far the most important factor. With enough high quality backlinks, position 1 can be achieved for a highly competitive keyword without that keyword appearing anywhere on the page or in the tags (eg www.adobe.com appears 1st out of 1.4 billion results for the keyword click here but the keyword doesn't appear anywhere on the page).
     
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    I think, most important factor for top ten ranking is URL, Title, Description, Keywords, Good Content etc
     
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    @ seo services01

    What characteristics of the url adobe.com do you consider to be the most important for it to achieve its top rankings?
     
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    Most important factor content, and build back link with keyword anchor text.
     
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    title is important factor
     
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