Google's Equation

[Mike282]

If you guys were to guess what Google's SEO equation was ---- how would you rank each percentage wise?

Im new to SEO... but it appears to me that:


50% Content
30% Links
20% Other (domain name, domain age, keyword placement, title tag, etc.)



What do you guys think???

[e_marketing_india]

Originally Posted by Mike282

If you guys were to guess what Google's SEO equation was ---- how would you rank each percentage wise?

Im new to SEO... but it appears to me that:


50% Content
30% Links
20% Other (domain name, domain age, keyword placement, title tag, etc.)

What do you guys think???

I would say

25% domain hosting, domain url ( whether .co.uk, .de)
25% content ( If you have good content you will automatically get links
25% back links ( off-page optimization)
25% ( on page optimization)

HOWZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[coolslko]

Originally Posted by Mike282

If you guys were to guess what Google's SEO equation was ---- how would you rank each percentage wise?

Im new to SEO... but it appears to me that:


50% Content
30% Links
20% Other (domain name, domain age, keyword placement, title tag, etc.)



What do you guys think???

in my opinion.....

30% content
50% inbound links
20% Other (domain name, domain age, keyword placement, title tag, etc.)

[kyrie]

Originally Posted by coolslko

in my opinion.....

30% content
50% inbound links
20% Other (domain name, domain age, keyword placement, title tag, etc.)

Same here...

[xy7durga]

in my opinion...
First checks the keyword relevancy with domain name and after that it checks with the remaining things.

[shakir]

me disagree with you all. I am expirimenting by changing my site content and adding back links etc. somtime m getting results opposit to all of yours calculation. until now i didnt get any proper result

[bogs]

can't really give any opinion... since googel algo is really unpredictable and changing/updating every now and then..

[full house]

I would say,


40% content
20% quality IBL
20% hosting
20% optimization

[swinger]

To me, both content and inbound links are equally important.

[x3mario]

Only google can answer that. It's really hard to guess the equation becuase google is always updating their algorithm that can also affect the equation.

[impius]

I agree with xy7durga...It appears as though Google checks keyword relevancy first and does an initial rank, then rearranges pased on PR (links).

[corlock]

I'm guessing...

750% IBL
25% content

care to share what contains the others that has been said...

[impius]

good looks

[pinkfluffybunny]

content, metas and how content is presented - 99% - no guess - statistically proven

[dee_el07]

Content 60%
Links 40%

[John Scott]

For competitive terms:

90% domain trust based on linkage.

[qbert_seo]

90% domain trust based on linkage.

One month ago I would of disagreed with this, but trust rankings of the sites where you have links seems to play a majority of that involved in a site's search rankings for a particular term. I've seen many sites loose credibility recently.

[robpongi]

Also, IMHO, a big part of it all is coding your pages to be VALID html and/or VALID xhtml according to the current W3C standards. Even though this isn't an "official" guideline, I really think it makes a big difference as, for one thing, it increases page trust. PHP pages? No way! GO BACK TO HTML OR XHTML because there are so many spam servers out there dumping duplicate content PHP all over the web and if your site is PHP, often the big search engines cannot tell the difference between spam and the original pages. This is, of course, just my humble opinion.

[jeffnova]

SEOMOZ has a poll where SEO people rank what they think helps and hurts - you might get a good answer there

[mitchwah]

Originally Posted by x3mario

Only google can answer that. It's really hard to guess the equation becuase google is always updating their algorithm that can also affect the equation.

Agree 100%. Google should publish their algorithm and make our jobs easier! (Wishful thinking)