seo ranking factors

Credit: Nick Skliarov

Have you ever thought about how Google’s SEO Ranking Factors and SEO works? Here is an in-depth overview of what it has under the hood:

โœ”๏ธ ๐๐„๐‘๐“ is an AI-powered system that helps understand the meaning of words and query intent.

โœ”๏ธ ๐‚๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง – Responsible for extradition alerts during various crises (personal or catastrophes).

โœ”๏ธ ๐ƒ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง is a grouper of similar search results for inquiry. Works with both pages and fragments, removing useless duplicates from the search results.

โœ”๏ธ ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง – an algorithm that calculates the key weight of a keyword (phrase) in a domain if it turns out that it is named purely for SEO.

โœ”๏ธ ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ก๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ – a system that monitors the freshness of the results for those queries where it is expected. For example, by the name of a movie that just came out.

โœ”๏ธ ๐”๐ฌ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ – Makes sure users see original and useful content written by people and for people. And not just to get SEO traffic.

โœ”๏ธ ๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐€๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ – This includes many subsystems that analyze document links and their usage.

โœ”๏ธ ๐‹๐จ๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ – a system for identifying and displaying multiple news sources (“Top News” and “Local News”).

โœ”๏ธ ๐Œ๐”๐Œ (๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐”๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ) – Created for language understanding and generation. Used only in some search cases.

โœ”๏ธ ๐๐ž๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  โˆ’ Classifies queries and queries for their respective pages (links) to each other.

โœ”๏ธ ๐Ž๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ is a canonicalization system for content. Gives preference to original sources and works with the hreflang/canonical attribute.

โœ”๏ธ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐๐ž – system for removing information from a search (personal or copyrighted).

โœ”๏ธ ๐๐š๐ ๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž – analyzes page performance and safety.

โœ”๏ธ Passage ranking is an AI system for analyzing rare sections/passages on a page for full disclosure of how relevant it is to a query.

โœ”๏ธ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ โ€” analyzes the quality of reviewers.

โœ”๏ธ ๐‘๐š๐ง๐ค๐๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง is an AI system that links words to concepts. It improves the search by phrases that do not contain the right keyword enter thanks to the understanding of linking words and concepts.

โœ”๏ธ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง is a system that selects authoritative content. It uses what SEOs call the E-A-T concept.

โœ”๏ธ ๐’๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐•๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ – Group results from one site to show no more than two at the top. Subdomains here are considered the same site as the main domain (with rare exceptions).

โœ”๏ธ ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ฆ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง – analyzes content spam and behavioural spam.

โœ”๏ธ The remaining systems are implemented in the Core Algorithm or separate subsystems:
โ€” Hummingbird
โ€” Mobile Ranking, Page Speed โ€‹โ€‹System, Safe Sites
โ€” Panda, Penguin

And there you have it, the powerful 20 SEO ranking factors that you should keep in mind for your content marketing.

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