Top 10 SEO Ranking Criteria

Search Engine Analysts around the world believe that (although Google does not reveal the answers) the following Top 10 criteria are most likely to assist you in achieving better Search Engine Rankings and improved placement on Search Engine Results Pages:

1. Keyword in Title Tags
2. Global Link Popluarity of Site
3. Anchor Text of inbound links
4. Link popularity within the site’s internal link structure
5. Age of Site
6. Topical relevance of invound links to site
7. Link popularity of site in topical communities (Social Media Optimisation)
8. Keyword use in body text (frequency, distribution and density)
9. Global link popularity of linking site
10. Topical relationship of linking pages (theme alignment)

This information was obtained from the SEOMoz Survey 2007.