Search Engine Ranking Factors for your blog : Top 40 points

Search engine ranking factors of Google are publicly not known. It is assumed that there are just over 200 ranking factors that have different importance for Positioning on Search Engine Results page.

Previously we wrote 50 Tips to get more traffic in your blog, this time we will write about probable points on Search Engine Ranking Factors.

How people know these Search Engine Ranking Factors

All these Search Engine Ranking Factors written here based on different webmasters’ experience after working with their websites years after years. SEO experts wrote in pieces about their experiences and assumed these can be among the Search Engine Ranking Factors in Google’s proprietary algorithm. Outside Google, no one knows what are the points and how the calculations are actually done.

But, checking these points will definitely help you to get a better position in Google search result only if your content is unique and great.

Assumed Search Engine Ranking Factors

1. Age of the Domain is most important among the Search engine ranking factors
2. Proper understandable URL containing Keywords
3. Proper Keywords in the Title tag
4. Proper Keywords in the Meta description tag is well known among the Search Engine Ranking Factors
5. Position of the Keywords from the left side in the above said Points 2, 3 & 4
6. Proper Keyword density, SEO experts says 4-5%
7. Keywords in the anchor text of outgoing link on the page
8. Keywords in the anchor text of incoming link to the page
9. Keywords in name of the images
10. Keywords in the alt tag of the images might be among the Search Engine Ranking Factors
11. Keywords in the title of the images
12. Keywords in the link of the images (if it is linked to somewhere)
13. Keywords in the name of any attached downloadable documents, such as pdf
14. Keywords in the link of any attached downloadable documents
15. Keywords in the anchor text of those hyperlink to download the attached documents
16. The document itself might act as an article with all the factors itself, if not disallowed by robots.txt
17. Keywords in h2, h3 tag
18. Keywords in the domain name
19. Internal pagelinks (such as in sidebars), anchor texts, their position in SERP
20. Links from the social network other than Twitter and StumbleUpon
21. Links and retweets on Twitter with that url
22. Number of Stumbles in StumbleUpon
23. Presence of the domain name in Google’s own directory
24. Number of posts per day
25. Number of clicks from Google search for that url and behavior
26. Diversity of the External Link Sources towards the webpage
27. Reliability of the External Link Sources towards the webpage
28. Reliability of  outgoing links
29. The person, on whose name the domain is registered his / her online reputation
30. Tag cloud
31. Readability scores like Gunning-Fog Score, Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease
32. Text-image ratio (higher better)
33. Text-Advertisements ratio (lower better)
34. Some specific layout might play a role among the Search Engine Ranking Factors
35. Page Speed is officially said among the Search Engine Ranking Factors
36. W3C validation indirectly plays great role among the Search Engine Ranking Factors
37. There might be some “poison words or phrases”
38. White listed or not
39. What are the activities / measures taken after showing errors in Google Webmaster tools
40. Activity on Webmaster Tool and Analytics

As you can see these are only 40 probable points among the Search Engine Ranking Factors. There are 160 more. More difficult is how these Search Engine Ranking Factors are calculated.

One thing I can say, try to interact with Google Webmaster Tools as if it is your friend. When it will report any problem, immediately resolve it.

Do not think much about Search Engine Ranking Factors, just write honestly maintaining these probable 40 points as possible, your website will definitely do better in search result.