What if every site was SEO optimized with the same number of links....

who would be listed first on google.

 

Impossible. It will always vary.

But if you must. Theoretically, the page with better on-page SEO and depends if they have the keywords in the domain/directory/subdomain.

Charles

 

There would be an on-page optimization madness

 

Its a very complicated Question.
The answer would be then we would not need search engines..

 

SEO is always going to very per-page... nevermind per site. There are simply too many factors involved to give a definitive answer to this question. Don't forget alot of it comes down to sheer luck of the draw.

 

the content is the most important, i have an unoptimized website, but in other language, not english, with original content, which i have never optimized, but i have a lot of visitors from search engines, searching on phrases from my articles.

 

SEO is not based entirely on backlinks!

 

It would be the page with the best ratio of keywords, plus the most amount of anchor text using the keywords, and the best all round on-page optimisation in general. So it would always depend on the keywords.

You could never create a level playing field just by giving every site the same PR, because there are so many factors involved.

 

I think that Google would select a site randomly the rest would be banned.

 

Can't believe noone has mentioned age of the site yet!

Notting

 

So if all things were equal it would have to list them in some order. Do you think it would be alphabetical based on title?

 

I'd vote for date, but I'm certainly curious

 

I am curious also. Sort of gives a basis set. If all things were equal then what..... sort of thing.

 

Well there are other things like : content olso exact nu7mber of backlinks it's hard to belive will happen and from same sites )