[Get] SEO Ranking Factors 2013 - Case Study

www.searchmetrics.com have published a report of a comprehensive SEO case study they conducted a few months back:

"This white paper deals with the definition and evaluation of factors that have
high rank correlation coefficients with top organic search results and aims to
provide a more in-depth analysis of search engine algorithms. The data collection
and its evaluation refer to Ranking Factors and Rank Correlation for Google.com
in 2013."

http://www.searchmetrics.com/media/documents/ranking-faktoren/download-ranking-factor-study-2013.pdf

I took some quick notes whilst reading and here are the main factors you should be concerned with if you are too lazy to read, but this is a interesting report for anyone involved with SEO. Numbers next to the ranking factors are on a scale of 1-0, with 1 meaning important with 0 being less important.


SOCIAL SIGNALS
Google+, 0.40
Facebook comments, likes, shares, 0.34
Pinterest 0.29
Tweets 0.28


BACKLINKS
Number of back links 0.34
SEO visibility of back linking URL 0.25
% no followed 0.20
% back links with generics anchors 0.18
word count in anchor text 0.14
% Backlinks from same country 0.11
% Backlinks with keywords 0.06


ONPAGE - TECHNICAL
Length of url/domain (short is best) 0.16
Position of keyword in title (front is better) 0.12
Existence of description 0.06
Sitespeed 0.04


ONPAGE - CONTENT
Number of internal links 0.15
word count of articles/HTML 0.13
Keywords in body 0.11
Keywords in external links 0.11
Self referential internal links with keywords 0.11
Number of external links 0.09
Number of images 0.08
Existence of H1 and H2 tags (non keywords) 0.04
Video integration 0.03
Keywords in description 0.02

this again ???

LOL wtf your posting as if we don't keep any track with all the SEO sites out there also we were expecting a case study from you but all you did was copy paste.

Its look usefull to me,

thesam said:

Its look usefull to me,

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I'm sure that it's useful for everybody out here on BHW)