Search Engine Ranking Factors

Ever wondered what the most important factors are for gaining high rankings in the Search Engines (SE)?

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org has published an article that contains a list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase.  In addition to Rand, he invited 12 leading SE experts to offer their opinions on what factors most affect SE rankings.

In this article you will find:

• Top 10 ranking factors
• In-document (or on-page) ranking factors
• Link ranking factors
• URL, technical, hosting, and server-side ranking factors
• Detrimental ranking factors (what not to do!)

This is a great opportunity to peek inside the minds of the experts and see where they focus their attention.