What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO?

brooke · 12-12-2005, 08:00 PM

Name one and justify it, but you cant repeat what other people have said.

I think its the page title tag. I have noticed that where I have made a page title alteration that there has been a huge change in ranking, but a more concerted effort at just about everything else achieves very little noticable difference?

***Brian Turner*** · 13-12-2005, 12:14 AM

Single Most Important Factor in SEO? Ah, well, 2 years ago it was links - simply links. They're still very important - but Google has been especially punitive in how it regards links these days.

If you'd all like a future tip it's Clickstream...Google's monitoring of human user behaviour from the Google Toolbar, Desktop search, search cookies, tracking links in results, etc.

brooke · 13-12-2005, 02:07 AM

but you still havn't given your number one factor!!!

***Brian Turner*** · 13-12-2005, 11:29 AM

No.1 factor? Okay then - ensure the site is search engine friendly in the first place.

There's actually a lot of dynamic software out there on custom-built sites and CMS systems that makes search engine's work a lot harder. You don;t want that - it's a very important foundation to ensure that search engines can find what they need, as they need it. From that is the core foundation of further SEO work...

- Unique titles on all pages
- Unique meta-descriptions on all pages
- Unique content (as much as reasonable) on all pages

Does that help?

brooke · 14-12-2005, 01:25 AM

Yeah, that'll do. I was looking for somthing more exciting, but I am beginning to look at every page now as a seperate ticket in the search engine lottery that needs to be tuned, as opposed to a mass site which I usually did it as. I'm overhauling a 200 page site right now. A personal site, and every metatag says the same thing, at the moment.... 200+ pages.....

Good job Xmas is around the corner, i'll get santa to do it for me.

vpssupport · 14-12-2005, 12:27 PM

No.1 = Quality content - without that you have nothing! lol

brooke · 15-12-2005, 02:25 PM

Cute Girls.

Without cute girls you have nothing.

***Brian Turner*** · 15-12-2005, 07:17 PM

It may be worth mentioning that Rand Fishkin wrote up a pretty comprehensive guide to ranking factors here:

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/searc...ng-factors.php

Marvin · 01-01-2006, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Turner

It may be worth mentioning that Rand Fishkin wrote up a pretty comprehensive guide to ranking factors here:

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/searc...ng-factors.php

I think that guide is brilliant - really clear. Its got some great links at the end of it too, which are also worth following up.

Jess1 · 01-01-2006, 10:42 PM

The answer, I guess would be based on what type of SEO you are doing, different rules apply depending on if you are white, grey or black hat, would you not agree?
There is a pretty neat article http://www.seopapers.com/article/100 by Jason Duke(sos about the link being broken up but you cant post a link until you have made sixteen posts) Its a breakdown of Hilltop which Aaron Wall has written about. One common denominator I would guess would be unique content.

My first post... hopefully not my last...btw Hellooooooooo roomies

J

12-12-2005, 08:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
brooke Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 145	What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? Name one and justify it, but you cant repeat what other people have said. I think its the page title tag. I have noticed that where I have made a page title alteration that there has been a huge change in ranking, but a more concerted effort at just about everything else achieves very little noticable difference?

13-12-2005, 12:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,719	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? Single Most Important Factor in SEO? Ah, well, 2 years ago it was links - simply links. They're still very important - but Google has been especially punitive in how it regards links these days. If you'd all like a future tip it's Clickstream...Google's monitoring of human user behaviour from the Google Toolbar, Desktop search, search cookies, tracking links in results, etc. __________________ SEO specialist

13-12-2005, 02:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
brooke Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? but you still havn't given your number one factor!!!

13-12-2005, 11:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,719	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? No.1 factor? Okay then - ensure the site is search engine friendly in the first place. There's actually a lot of dynamic software out there on custom-built sites and CMS systems that makes search engine's work a lot harder. You don;t want that - it's a very important foundation to ensure that search engines can find what they need, as they need it. From that is the core foundation of further SEO work... - Unique titles on all pages - Unique meta-descriptions on all pages - Unique content (as much as reasonable) on all pages Does that help? __________________ SEO specialist

14-12-2005, 01:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
brooke Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? Yeah, that'll do. I was looking for somthing more exciting, but I am beginning to look at every page now as a seperate ticket in the search engine lottery that needs to be tuned, as opposed to a mass site which I usually did it as. I'm overhauling a 200 page site right now. A personal site, and every metatag says the same thing, at the moment.... 200+ pages..... Good job Xmas is around the corner, i'll get santa to do it for me.

14-12-2005, 12:27 PM	#6 (permalink)
vpssupport Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bedfordshire Posts: 155	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? No.1 = Quality content - without that you have nothing! lol __________________ Regards, Clive Rutherford www.vitalproductsolutions.co.uk

15-12-2005, 02:25 PM	#7 (permalink)
brooke Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? Cute Girls. Without cute girls you have nothing.

15-12-2005, 07:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,719	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? It may be worth mentioning that Rand Fishkin wrote up a pretty comprehensive guide to ranking factors here: http://www.seomoz.org/articles/searc...ng-factors.php __________________ SEO specialist

01-01-2006, 10:42 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jess1 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London UK Posts: 3	Re: What Do You Consider To Be The Single Most Important Factor In SEO? The answer, I guess would be based on what type of SEO you are doing, different rules apply depending on if you are white, grey or black hat, would you not agree? There is a pretty neat article http://www.seopapers.com/article/100 by Jason Duke(sos about the link being broken up but you cant post a link until you have made sixteen posts) Its a breakdown of Hilltop which Aaron Wall has written about. One common denominator I would guess would be unique content. My first post... hopefully not my last...btw Hellooooooooo roomies J

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